Tabor meteorite (NHMW-Min A10)3D Model
3D scan of the 2789 grams heavy Tabor meteorite specimen - the largest single piece of this meteorite that fell on July 3, 1753 in the Czech Republic. It was transferred from the ‘k.k. Schatzkammer’ (Imperial and Royal Treasury) to the Natural History Cabinet in 1778, together with the Hraschina meteorite, and is one of the founding objects of the Vienna meteorite collection.
The Tabor meteorite can be seen in Hall 5 of the NHM Vienna in the large showcase 47.
Meteorite: Tabor (Ordinary chondrite / H5)
Inventory number: NHMW-Min A10
Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Dept. of Mineralogy & Petrography, Meteorite Coll. (curator: Ludovic Ferrière)
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Scanned and edited by Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)
Text by Ludovic Ferrière (NHMW)
Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.
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