Dr. Nagy I. Zoltán szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 6. 1975. (Budapest, 1975)

Fragments of medium size penetrated only half-way into the loomy soil. The clay attached to them is "a safe indicator of the leading side of the meteorite in the course of its path through the atmosphere". Smaller fragments were lying simply on the groung surface. A great number of micrometeorites of the size of a dust particle has also been found (SZABÓ 1868), The centre of the stone-shower was located within the administrative area of the village Kfíahiúa. However some fragmentes, such as the biggest one with a weight of 294kgs, was found on the administrative area of Uj-Sztusica in the county Ung, and the area of the village Zboj, county Zemplén. From the spatial distribution of the fallen, or, respectively, scatered fragments some very interesting conclusions may be drawn. Some observations are already mentioned in the publication of Szabó, however, the mapped data collected by SZABÓ concerning the hitting sites of the fragments after the explosion of the meteoric body are of a still higher interest. Copies of this map are now of a high rarity. Its title is: "Map of the Meteorite Shower that Occurred on June 9-th, 1866 at 05 p.m. in the Area of the Village Knahina, County Ung, prepared by SZABÓ, 1869 - Röhn and Grund Printers, Pest, 1869". Size data: outer size 51 x 69 cm, inner size 45 x 56 cm. Scale.- 1:28.800; corresponding to 12 = 400 fathoms of Vienna. This was the scale of the II. military survey (the so-called Francistic Survey); this survey of the country was terminated in 1869. This is the explanation of the circumstance that SZABÓ waited some three years for the publication of this map; it was only in 1869 that he came in the possession of a reliable projection. The base of the map is a black-on-white lithography originating from the II. military survey, indicating orographical conditions by a fine striping, on which asuperprint was made in discrete brown, green, and respectively, red colours. The hilly areas were represented by a very clear grey-brown colour, while the meadows, grass-lands, and straw-yards were printed in a vivid spinach-green colour. The most valuable feature of the map consists in the indication of the sites wheie the various meteorites were found. By analysing these data, we can reach the following conclusions. Fig. 1. Aspect of the "firy meteor" of Knahina as seen by eye-witnesses. Fig. 2

.View of the hills in the vicinity of KAahiáa, at the time of the explosion of the meteor. (From the exhibits of the Mineralogical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. ) 1 • kép. A knyahinyai "tffzmeteor", amilyennek a szemtanúk látták. 2. kép: A Knyahinya-környéki dombok a meteor szétrobbanása perceiben. (Festmények a budapesti Természettudományi Múzeum Ásványtára kiállításán. )