Meteorite size comparison – ‘Blaubeuren’ with ‘Machtenstein’ and ‘Cloppenburg’
Meteorite size comparison – ‘Blaubeuren’ with ‘Machtenstein’ and ‘Cloppenburg’
‘Blaubeuren’ is the largest and heaviest stony meteorite ever found in Germany. Its exterior dimensions are approximately 28 by 25 by 20 centimetres. In this image, for comparison, is a cast model of the meteorite ‘Machtenstein’ (right), which, similar to ‘Blaubeuren’, was only recognised as a meteorite in 2014, decades after its discovery in the 1950s. It is named after the place where it was found, Machtenstein, which is near Schwabhausen in Upper Bavaria; it originally weighed 1422 grams. In the foreground, the 142-gram ‘Cloppenburg’ meteorite, which was found in March 2017 near the city of the same name in Lower Saxony.
