Online seit: 12. April 2006
Thirty years ago, a peasant digging a hole inthe garden of his house in Gresia village, on theright bank of the Vedea River, found a large,hard, egg-shaped boulder at a depth of more thanone meter. He drew it out and put it in the backof his house, where the boulder remained untilthe discoverer’s son presumed that it could be ameteorite and brought a very small sample of itto the Geological Institute of Romania. Weconfirmed his supposition by microscopicexamination of a few thin sections and polishedsections and we identified the boulder as a lithicmeteorite of chondritic type. The owner askedfor an identification certificate, which theGeological Institute of Romania issued underour signatures. [...] Speculations regarding terrestrial age of the meteorite Taking into account the quite advanced degree of weathering, we appreciate, before any other speculations, that the Gresia meteorite has a terrestrial age of at least 200 years. The Gresia village appears on the statistic map of southern Romania since 1835, counting 37 houses (Giurescu, 1957), which means that it existed even at the end of the 18 th century. Since we could not find information regarding the fall of a meteorite in this village, though such reports exist for other localities in Romania, even from more ancient times, we may presume that the phenomenon took place before 1800. In 1786, in the evening of September the 8 th , a fall of meteteorites took place in the Făgăraş Mountains region, described by eye witnesses from Curtea de Argeş and Oradea (Corfus, 1975). One of these meteorites could have fallen at Gresia.
Die Beschreibung sagt eindeutig, dass er echt ist. Und genau so sieht auch ein Meteorit aus, wenn er aus Europäischen nassen Boden gegraben wird. Das Eisen bildet eine Schale um den Met und schließt alles, was drum rum ist, mit ein.