Case file · Cosmic event
The Hraschina meteorite fall
On the evening of 26 May 1751 a fireball and detonations were seen and heard over Hrvatsko Zagorje, and two iron masses fell near the village of Hrašćina in Croatia.
1751 CE · 46.10, 16.30 · status: official
The account
Many people out on their Sunday walk saw it; the bishop of Zagreb had witnesses' statements recorded, and the larger mass went to the imperial collection in Vienna. In 1794 Ernst Chladni used the Hraschina protocol to argue that stones and iron really fall from space, then a heresy among scientists. In 1808 a slab revealed the Widmanstätten pattern.