In Transcarpathia will celebrate the anniversary of the fall of the meteorite
on Saturday, June 11, on velikobereznyanschine will be held festive events on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the fall of the meteorite "Princess" is the largest meteorite in Europe. The celebration will take place on the territory of Uzhansky national natural Park, in the tract "Chorni mlaky" the Princess near the village of Velyky Berezny district. The celebration will be joined by representatives of the neighbouring countries Poland, Slovakia. Beginning at 12.00. Route: m. Uzhgorod ? PGT. Velykyi Bereznyi ? C. the Salt ? S. the Princess ? the tract "Chorni Mlaky" (the signs). Distance from Uzhgorod – the tract "Chorni Mlaky" - 60 km away. Background: the Tract "Chorni Mlaky" - the place of falling of a meteorite Knyagininskaya 9 Jun 1866 in 16 hours 5 minutes local time, near the village of Duchess, organized an exciting event - the fall of Europe's largest meteorite. The events unfolded between the ridges of the Wall and javorn?k. The meteorite appeared in a ball of fire over the town of liptovsk? mikul??, flew East over Slovak cities Chars, Sample, Presov (Slovakia) and covered the distance of over 200 km exploded near the village Princess at the altitude of 40 km. In a large area was a real "stone rain". Stones are mostly found in the fields, the streets, the villages of Duchess, Stuzhytsia (Ukraine), Fail (Slovakia). But most fell in the forest, where was not found. The number of stones was very large. In the early days the local population were found more than 60 stones. In total fell 1200 stones. The biggest chip was found on the side of a mountain Wall, in the tract "Chorni Mlaky". This meteorite, according to legend, the witnesses of events, was found by a peasant Vasily Krivenko. Every year he was mowing the grass on a glade in the tract "Chorni Mlaky". A few days after the fall of the meteorite he came to the Hayfield and saw a hole in the meadow that was not there before. Digging up the soil at this place deeper than 2 metres, he found a large fragment of the meteorite weighing 279 kg 766, When falling it broke into two pieces weighing 141 kg 833 g and 137 kg 933, in turn, from the latter broke off a smaller one, weighing 2 kg 350 g. About the discovery learned from the Great Forester Anton Berezny Pokorny, which, according to him, for a yoke of oxen bought this chip Basil Crew Janika, and resold the Imperial Museum in Vienna, where the meteorite is at this day. To study this phenomenon, the Uzhansky administration of the Committee on 2 July 1866 was created a special Commission, with the aim to collect and study fragments of a meteorite. 10 days later, on 12 July 1866, in place of a meteorite arrived scientific expedition from Vienna and Budapest, which conducted a detailed survey in an area the size of 2 x 0.75 miles. According to the results of the expedition were found 72 fragments with a total weight of 100.5 pounds (about 46.7 kg). The search for the wreckage continued as of September 24, 1866, they were found in a total weight of 850,5 pounds (385,8 kg). According Denissova historical and natural history Museum. The total mass of all the fragments of a meteorite is 500 kg. Knyagininskaya Fragments of the meteorite are stored in the historical and natural history museums 115 cities in the world. This was reported in the Transcarpathian regional state administrationÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
