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| Basic information | Name: Menziswyl This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1903 Country: Switzerland Mass:  28.9 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 8831 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 77:
Menzyswil Near Taters, Fribourg, Switzerland Fell 1903, July Ordinary chondrite (L5) Two pieces of this meteorite (24.8 and 4.1 g) turned up in a private meteorite collection. A label signed by M. Musy, then curator of the Fribourg Natural History Museum, says: "Found at Menzyswil July 1903 before a barn next to a hole, made by a flash of lightning. The farmers say that the stone fell with the lightning and shattered when it hit the ground; it was hot, when they picked it up." Classification and analysis: olivine Fa23.5, pyroxene Fs20.6Wo0.5, plagioclase Ab86.9Or3.5; Jtirgen Otto, Mineralog. Petrogr. Institut der Universitat, Albert-Strasse 23 b, D-79104 Freiburg. Mass: 24.8 g in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Fribourg, Switzerland; and 4.1 g Bally-Prior Museum, Schonenwerd, Switzerland. Information: Swiss Meteorite Laboratory, Rolf Btihler, P. O. Box 126, CH-8750 Glarus, Switzerland. Writeup from MB 78: Menziswyl (correction) Menziswyl (near Tafers) is the correct writing for this meteorite, given as "Menzyswil (near Taters)" in Meteoritical Bulletin 77, Meteoritics 29 (1994) 891-897. See Bühler and Otto (1995). | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 77, Meteoritics 29, 891-897 (1994) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 78, Meteoritics 30, 792-796 (1995)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Fribourg, Switzerland This is 1 of 12 approved meteorites from Switzerland (plus 3 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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Menzyswil (From MetBase) | ||||||||||||||||