Specimen
weight: 169.5 grams & 230.1 grams
169.5 gram complete individual
from the Minerological Institute of Bonn, Germany #247, and
Pester University collection #51H with labels from both.
Knyahinya, 230.1 gram complete
individual from the Natural History Museum of London Collection,
specimen #41647 with label on stone that reads 28 Knya-hinya.
I acquired this piece in an exchange with the museum in December,
2003.
This L5 meteorite fell on
June 9, 1866 in the Ukraine, Russia. Over 1000 stones fell,
with a total known weight of over 500 kilograms. Although there
is a large amount of this meteorite, it is almost all locked
in museum collections and few collectors have this meteorite.