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St. Michel →
Fragments with crust: left 290 g, right 65 g and publication Borgström (1912); collection Jarkko Kettunen
Fell
Location	Mikkeli, Finland
Coordinates[1]	61°39'N, 27°12'E
Date	Jul. 12, 1910, 19:25
Characteristics
Class	ordinary chondrite, L6
Mass	17 kg
Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Synonyms →
in NHM Cat: Mikkeli

At southeast Finland on the 12th of July 1910 a bright fireball, like the sun, appeared in the evening sky. It came down in steep angle from south to north and went off at the height of 30 km. A couple of witnesses saw the meteorite broke in two pieces before the fireball disappeared.

Some people claimed that they heard a strange hissing sound, before the thundering noice from the meteorite reached them some minutes later. After the fireball disappeared two hard explosions was heard and then thunder like noice. Meteorite fell down in two pieces ten kilometers southwest of Mikkeli (St. Michel at that time).

Farmer Daniel Honkanen was at his hayfield at that day. Sun was still shining at eight o'clock (in official report at 19:25 o'clock) in the beautiful summer evening. Suddenly he heard loud noise up in the air and saw a black object coming straight towards him. Then it just vanished. It was right then he heared a thump, when the meteorite hit the ground.

Soon he and the women that accompanied him found a hole on the field boundary. It was 60 cm deep and in the bottom of that hole there was a broken 7 kg meteorite (total weight for collected pieces 6802 g). Later similar hole and broken 10 kg (total weight for collected pieces 9650 g) meteorite was found two kilometers away in the forest. Both meteorites have a black crust allover so the break up for these pieces must have happened high in the air.

Collections

Fragments of the St. Michel meteorite in the largest collections:

Collection	weight of fragments (Koblitz MetBase)	remarks
Helsinki, Geol. Mus. Univ.	8.1 kg	[main mass]
Vienna, Naturhist. Mus.	1045 g
London, Nat. Hist. Mus.	953 g
New York, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.	752 g
Paris, Mus. d'Hist. Nat.	612 g
(…)

Location

Galleries

Main mass

Place of fall; Farmer Daniel Honkanen

Jan Woreczko collection

Fragment with crust 27.27 g

Fragment with crust 7.91 g

Fragment 1.52 g

Fragment with crust 46.6 g (Tomasz Jakubowski Collection)

Bibliography

• Borgström Leonhard Henrik, (1912), Die Meteoriten von St. Michel (Mit 3 Tafeln und 1 Figur im Text) , Bulletin de la Commission Géologique de Finlande, nr 34, Helsingfors 1912, pp. 49.^[2] Plik PDF.

• Kettunen Jarkko, Moilanen Jarmo, (2017), St. Michel - Takaisin Mikkeliin!, Tähdet ja avaruus, 5, 2017, pp.

• Koblitz Jörn, MetBase. Meteorite Data Retrieval Software, Version 7.3 (CD-ROM), Ritterhude, Germany 1994-2012. MetBase.

• Oja Heikki, (1978), Tulipalloja taivaalla, Tähtitieteellinen yhdistys Ursa, Helsinki 1978, pp. 208.^[3] File doi.

Footnotes

See also

• meteorite Bjurböle‎

• Finnish Museum of Natural History

External links

• Meteoritical Bulletin Database (MBD) – meteorite St. Michel
• Encyclopedia of Meteorites (EoM) – meteorite St. Michel

• Fińskie Muzeum Historii Naturalnej w Helsinkach (Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki; Helsinki, Geol. Mus. Univ.) – Luonnontieteellinen keskusmuseo, Helsingin yliopisto  ●  Exhibitions in the Mineral Cabinet

• LittlePlanets.fi, Jarkko Kettunen – St. Michel
• woreczko.pl – St. Michel

• Wikimedia – Finnish meteorites - Meteorites in the Arppeanum