Lot 50
Pultusk
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£400
Description
Fusion crusted polished fragment
Dimensions
20.5g, 3.1 x 2.8cm
Footnote
Pultusk (Warsaw, Poland) H5 (stone) - fell 30th January 1868
After the appearance of a bright fireball followed by loud detonations, a shower of stones fell over an area of several square miles between Pultusk and Ostrolenka on the Narew, Poland. Many of the meteorites recovered were surprisingly small, weighing just a few grams each, and have since been nicknamed 'Pultusk Peas'. Some estimate that the total number of stones must have been in the order of 100,000 but nowhere near that many have actually been recovered. This is an old, historical European fall, which has been well preserved.