Monthly Favourite Meteorite (Knyahinya & Pultusk)

Knyahinya & Pultusk

Knyahinya - This specimen is a fairly new addition to the Meteorites Australia Collection and I am very pleased with it. It is another of my birthday meteorite falls like Abee in the August Monthly Favourite. Knyahinya is classified as an L/LL5 and fell on June 9th, 1866 in Ungvár, Ukraine. This is a truly beautiful meteorite and this specimen is no exception. The cut face is full of brecciated colour and chondrules while the back side of the Endcut is a very black, fresh fusion crust full of little regmaglypts. Just stunning. (Although this photo doesn't quite do the piece justice.) It is an interesting fall as the Total Known Weight is a huge 500 kilograms, with the Main Mass taking up around 300 kilograms of that. The other 200 kilograms is made up of about 1000 odd stones, yet very few have ever made it out of museums and into private collections.

Knyahinya (L/LL5)
1.92g Endcut

Pultusk - This is another new addition to my collection. It is an Individual weighing 3.765 grams with around 70% fresh fusion crust. The break in the crust allows the nice pale and contrasting interior of Pultusk to be viewed. Pultusk is classified as a Brecciated H5 and fell in Warsaw, Poland at about 7:00pm Local Time on the 30th of January, 1868. An estimated and massive weight of 2000 kilograms is said to have fallen in the form of some 100,000+ stones; although only around 200-300 kilograms resides in collections! Most are just little pieces and the term "Pultusk Pea" has generally been given to specimens under 10 grams.

Pultusk (H5)
3.765g Individual - "Pultusk Pea"

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