Ensisheim meteorite

Ensisheim meteorite
Ensisheim meteorite in the town's museum
Type	Chondrite
Class	Ordinary chondrite
Group	LL6[1]
Country	France
Region	Ensisheim
Observed fall	Yes[2]
Fall date	7 November 1492
Found date	7 November 1492
TKW	127 kg (280 lb)
The fall of the meteorite, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1493.
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The Ensisheim meteorite is a stony meteorite that fell on November 7, 1492 in a wheat field outside the walled town of Ensisheim in then Alsace, Further Germany (now France). The meteorite can still be seen in Ensisheim's museum, the sixteenth-century Musée de la Régence. It is the oldest stony European meteorite fall from which there is still some meteoritic material preserved.