Treysa (meteorite)

The meteorite of Treysa, even meteorite Rommershausen, is an astronomical discovery in a wooded area near the townspeople Schwalm district Rommershausen in northern Hesse. The meteorite went to the German astronomical history as one of the most important detectable observed meteorite impacts in the modern age a. He is classified as medium octahedrite chemical group IIIB and shows the Widmanstatten structures.

Fund history

On April 3, 1916 at 15:30 clock Eyewitnesses reported by a clap of thunder and clouds of smoke. The light and noise of publication came from a falling from space to earth meteorite that crashed into a wooded area near Rommershausen.

Alfred Wegener calculated according to witnesses, the path of the meteorite and its likely impact site. The scientific importance has been recognized and then 300 Reichsmarks were awarded to the finder. In fact, the meteorite was found near the calculated location. The forester Hupmann found on March 5, 1917 in a wooded area near Rommershausen one and a half meter deep crater with the 63.28 kg heavy and 36 cm wide iron meteorites. This was only slightly fragmented and almost completely intact. It 23 plates and polished sections of the meteorite were prepared and studied by geological and mineralogical research institutes.

At the cosmic event since 1986 reminds one be established by the crumpled Mountain Club Memorial stone at ground zero.

On display will be the Fund in Marburg ( Lahn) Mineralogical Museum. A copy is in the Museum of the Schwalm in goats grove. Guide to meteorite locality are set up along the way (ring road) in Rommershäuserwald.