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... shows the 106g piece, the second largest surviving fragment of the H5 chondrite that fell on 19 February 1785 in Breitenfurt near Eichstädt (today Eichstätt) and weighed about 3.2 kg at the time. This fragment with fusion crust comes from the collection of ETH Zürich and was on display in a special exhibition during the 7th German Meteorite Colloquium on 21/22 February 2015 in Nördlingen. After the colloquium, an information board about the meteorite fall was unveiled in the village of Breitenbach.
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