Peekskill meteorite

41.286416666667 - 73.916388888889Koordinaten: 41 ° 17 '11 "N, 73 ° 54 ' 59 " W

The meteorite is a Peekskill originally 12.4 kg heavier, ordinary chondrite type H6. His case aroused by the circumstances special attention when he became the on October 9, 1992 around 19 clock 50 (Eastern Daylight Time ) in Peekskill, New York U.S. State, in the Wells Street 201 with a loud bang in the trunk of the parked Chevrolet Malibu 18 -year-old student Michelle Knapp struck and landed in the asphalt of the driveway to the house of her parents. In the ground it caused a 15 cm deep hole. No one was injured.

The keeper of the car taken which believed to have belonged to a car accident and looked after things, was able to convince them that the stone under the demolished car rear was still warm. The later referred to as the Peekskill Meteorite chunks as big as a football and had red paint marks on the black, charred surface of its fusion crust. Previously saw that Friday at least 14 residents of Peekskill and the surrounding area as well as exceptional from south-west to states luminous phenomena in the sky and took part also video footage of it. The original meteoroid fell apart during his flight through the atmosphere in more than 70 items. The well-documented trajectory of meteors was unusually flat. Your speed was over 50,000 kilometers per hour; within 40 seconds, she left behind a luminous trail of a total of 700 kilometers in length. The Peekskill meteorite landed at a speed of 80 meters per second and remained the only discovered fragment.

The meteorite collector Allan Langheinrich bought Michelle Knapp from the scarred by impact 1980 Chevrolet Malibu Classic V8 and toured with him and a 656 gram, sawed off part of the stone meteorites to the award of exhibitions around the world.