Spectacular meteorite to be exhibited at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

In January 2024, a meteorite fell to earth north-west of Berlin near the town of Ribbeck. Fragments of the meteorite, classified as a rare aubrite, will soon be on display at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Starting on Tuesday, 12 March, in the exhibition of the mineral collection and only for a few weeks, as the material is fragile and will be further researched.

It was one of the world's first eight recorded cases in which the collision of an asteroid with the Earth was predicted shortly before entry. A team of researchers and students from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the German Aerospace Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and the SETI Institute (USA) were able to collect more than 20 samples for the Museum für Naturkunde's research collection based on scattered field calculations from the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Starting on Tuesday, 12 March, some of these discoveries can be admired for several weeks in the exhibition of the Mineral Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. On 12 March from 11:00 – 12:00 and 14:00 – 15:00, there will be the accompanying programme "Meet the Scientists". Here visitors can meet the researchers and students who searched for the meteorites in the field and analysed them in the museum's laboratory.

On the museum's YouTube channel you can find a video on the research of the material at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin as part of the series "Museum Evolution".