𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚. Ordinary chondrite (H4). Part slice in collection box

𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚
Meteorite from ROMANIA part slice obtain from the main mass. Unearthed from the garden of a private (main mass owner’s) property. Exterior weathered with cracking throughout. Physical characteristics: Interior gray and in places heavily stained. Petrography: Most chondrules well defined, mesostatis dominated by turbid, devitrified material, presence (10-20%) of typically twinned cpx. In places all pyroxene grains within chondrules are clinopyroxene. Secondary feldspar grains rare and to 10 μm.

interesting report in the local newspaper: CLICK

“Thirty years ago, a peasant digging a hole in
the garden of his house in Gresia village, on the
right bank of the Vedea River, found a large,
hard, egg-shaped boulder at a depth of more than
one meter. He drew it out and put it in the back
of his house, where the boulder remained until
the discoverer’s son presumed that it could be a
meteorite and brought a very small sample of it
to the Geological Institute of Romania. We
confirmed his supposition by microscopic
examination of a few thin sections and polished
sections and we identified the boulder as a lithic
meteorite of chondritic type. The owner asked
for an identification ce
rtificate, which the
Geological Institute of Romania issued under
our 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.”

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