Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 96. (Budapest 2004)
Papp, G.: A critical review of 16–17th century reports on meteorite falls in and around the Carpathian Basin
Pavel Vorák [perhaps Vafák] and another herdsman, Václav Pekárek observing these metals noted the place where they fell down. They informed their neighbours and the village mayor's counsellors, who wasted no time in going to look for the metals; and they did it with hard work, because it was impossible to come close to the pieces, as the earth had become very hot for this metal, thus some people burnt their hands. Then one of the pieces had to be raised by a lever, because it was in 5/4 ells [~1 .25 m] depth. [This specimen weighed 15 pounds (-8.5 kg), according to the versified form of the account.] The other piece has also been found; it wasn't so deeply embedded, and weighed 2'A pounds [~ 1.25 kg], and it was of the same material. The third piece, which fell in the wood during this rumble, has not been found yet. The pieces stay at His Lordship Vilém Dubsky in Nové Mësto [na Moravë], and a lot of people goes or travels there in great amazement to have a look at them. Identical motifs of the Turkish and Czech accounts (cross-like celestial phenomena, behaviour of the cattle, triple explosion before the fall) demonstrate that they refer to the same event in spite of the differences in the date (June vs. July) and in the size of the meteorites (largely exaggerated by the Turkish chronicles). The day of the fall is given by ZELECHOVSKY as the Tuesday preceding St. Vitus' day (i.e. June 11), whereas a German leaflet published in Frankfurt am Main (ANONYMOUS 1619, see SOCHOR 1929) gave June 12. The report of ZELECHOVSKY has also been published in verse (ZELECHOVSKY 1619?), and this version was later reprinted a few times (SOCHOR 1929). A short contemporary note about the Odranec fall is included in a manuscript chronicle written in the Zd'ár abbey and (in a somewhat longer form) in the town chronicle of Jimramov as well (SOCHOR 1929). The recovered two meteorites were transferred to the Nové Mësto castle, seat of the estate of VlLÉM DUBSKY z TREBOMYSLIC, landlord of Odranec. SOCHOR (1929) and JAROS (1931) supposed that the meteorites have been lost in the early 1620s when DUBSKY fell into disgrace and his properties were confiscated. According to SVOBODA (1948), however, one of them got into the collection of a Lutheran teacher in Teleci named KOBLÍZEK. A search after this specimen was unsuccessful, a magnetometrical prospection after the third specimen also failed due to the presence of low-grade magnetite ores in the area (MARCELA BUKOVANSKÁ, pers. commun.). According to the above the "Steiermark" fall should be replaced by the Odranec fall in the Catalogue of meteorites. OFEN [BUDA], 1642 Listed as very doubtful by GRADY (2000: 379) referring to CHLADNI (1819: 100). CHLADNÍ (1819), using unspecified sources, dated the event to "a few days after November 30 or, on the basis of another report, December 12". HEY (1966:
