Two Hungarians find large chunk of asteroid detected by Hungarian astronomer

Hungarian searchers have found a meteorite fragment of the asteroid whose impact was predicted by a Hungarian astronomer on 21 January.

As we reported, Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárnecky was the first scientist to detect an asteroid speeding towards the Earth on 21 January. He immediately passed the information to his German and Czech colleagues.

The first meteorite piece was already found on Wednesday by professional Polish searchers. Now, another piece of 2024BX1 has been found: this time thanks to Hungarians. Zoltán Balla and Bence Gucsik told hvg.hu that they found a larger, 114 gram specimen on Friday after only an hour of searching.

The Hungarian Meteoritical Society said earlier that the first images suggest that the meteorite could be polymict eucrite or howardite, possibly aubrite. If so, collectors will be happy, as it could be worth a lot.

You can check out the photos of the fragment HERE.

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Footage of the impact:

Thanks to my wonderful colleague @allplanets I knew where and when to look for a #meteor coming down over #Berlin tonight. Here’s the video! pic.twitter.com/kBhGz6Ahir

— Michael Aye (@michaelaye@mastodon.online) 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@michaelaye) January 21, 2024

Here it is pic.twitter.com/6cDzlJ5hqD

— GionGionni (@GionniGion) January 21, 2024

Above Prague:

Prague’s view of #Sar2736: a minor planet entering Earth’s atmosphere on Jan 21, 2024, at 00:32 UT. pic.twitter.com/KXDnBvzmGX

— Hanjie Tan (@HonkitTan) January 21, 2024

Above Berlin:

über Berlin. pic.twitter.com/AYROUbTpSy

— FloBerlin (@BerlinFlo5) January 21, 2024