The meteorite appeared over the city of Litovskiy Mikulas, flew eastward over the Slovak cities of Saris, Zemplіn, Presov (Slovakia) and, having covered a distance of more than 200 km, exploded near the village of Knyahynya at an altitude of 40 km.
This meteorite, according to the witnesses of the events, was found by a villager Vasyl Kryvyanyk. A few days after the fall of the meteorite, he went to mow grass and saw a hole in the meadow, which had not been there before. Having excavated the ground at this spot, he found a large fragment of the meteorite weighing 279 kg 766 g. When it fell, it split into two pieces weighing 141 kg 833 g and 137 kg 933 g.
Pictured: the opening of the mini-monument "Knyahynya meteorite" (Mykhailo Kolodko, Fedir Shandor, Valentin Shtefanyo).
Author: Fedir Shandor
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