MIGHEI

The Mighei meteorite is the type specimen of a new type of meteorite material CM chondrites.

Kostenkova, a peasant, was standing 350 m to the east of the meteorite fall. She witnessed a flying bolide accompanied by a strong whirlwind. According to Kostenkova, the meteorite fell to earth from a height of 20-25 m, and it fell quite vertically… The meteorite seemed a black round rotating sphere like a big watermelon; "smoke and steam like a huge wheel surrounded it". The meteorite buried into the soil for half its diameter…Falling, the meteorite knocked down three sunflowers….All the leaves on the sunflowers around the meteorite hole up to a height of 1.5 m, were covered by a black, marked layer of soot.