{"id":40256,"date":"2026-03-09T06:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=40256"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:11:17","slug":"a-meteorite-fall-oc-in-koblenz-guls-germany-at-around-1755-ut-on-8-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=40256","title":{"rendered":"KOBLENZ (prov.) meteorite fall (brecciated eucrite) in Koblenz (G\u00fcls), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at around 17:55:02 UT on 8 March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last update: 11 April 2026 (15:10 CEST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fist-sized meteorite (brecciated eucrite) hit the roof of a house at location 50\u00b020’37.8″N, 7\u00b032’51.8″E<\/a> in Koblenz-G\u00fcls, Germany shortly after 17:55:02 UT on 8 March 2026 when a bolide was first visually detected. The two inhabitants of the attic flat were in another room of the house when the meteorite fell. At 18:06 UT they informed the local police about the impact on the roof, which caused a football-sized hole in it. The meteorite had pierced through the slate roofing on the roof and then destroyed the wooden beams, the insulation, and, inside, the wood paneling on the walls as well as the floor tiles. The frame of the adjacent window was also damaged. The fire brigade was sent to inspect the fall site where they stayed until ~21:30 UT. The meteorite fragmented into 11 larger pieces, weighing between 6 and 161 grams, on impact on the roof above the bedroom at the upper floor of the house. The first meteorite fragments were presented by the police during a short open-air press conference near the fall location in the evening of 8 March 2026. The police took the fragments in the evening of the fall. On 10 March they handed them to the home owners who are the sole owners of the meteorite fragments. On 9 March additional smaller meteorite fragments were acquired in the neighboring courtyard by the French meteorite dealer Thierry Monter (62), who immediately sold the specimens, and German planetologist Dennis Harries. All together about 21 grams of fragments were collected. The bolide was seen by hundreds of witnesses in many European countries. Ear-witness Ingo Beller, who was in the immediate vicinity (~ 20 metres) of the fall site during the fall, reports he heard a whistling sound and then a sound which reminded him of a car crash with shattered glass and metal. In the area of Cochem-Zell, southwest of Koblenz, three detonation booms were heard and windows were vibrating. Near the village Krastel (Bell), ~35.5 km south-southwest from the fall site, rumbling sounds, lasting between 15 and 20 seconds, could be heard after the detonation booms of the fragmentation events. Various images and videos of the bolide can be found here: AKM\/IMO<\/a>. On 22 March six small meteorite fragments weighing around 2.5 grams were provided by German meteorite collectors for measuring cosmogenic short-lived radionuclides at the Felsenkeller Laboratory of VKTA in Dresden. The analyses of small meteorite fragments have begun at Westf\u00e4lische Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t (WWU) in M\u00fcnster. A proper MetBull registration of the Koblenz meteorite fall by WWU does require the provision of 20 grams of the meteorite though. On 2 April it was announced by M\u00fcnster University that meteorite thin sections confirm that the meteorite is a brecciated eucrite. Already on 11 March the Koblenz police officially told people looking for meteorites in a press statement<\/a> to respect the privacy and private property of the local population: “The police expressly point out that the privacy of residents must be respected without restriction. This includes, in particular, unauthorized entry onto private property. Doing so also constitutes the criminal offense of trespassing, which will result in criminal charges being filed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A large 161-gram fragment (length ~ 7cm) of the mass which hit the roof. Photo: SWR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A larger 161-gram fragment (length ~ 7cm) of the mass which hit the roof. Photo: 5VISION.NEWS<\/p>\n\n\n

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161-gram fragment. Photo: WinklerTV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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161-gram fragment. Photo: I. Beller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fragments of the mass which hit the roof. Photo: I. Beller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fragments of the mass which hit the roof. Photo: SWR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roof fragments at the police office. The larger ones seem to have a diametre of up to 5 centimetres. Photo: SWR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smaller fragments of the mass which hit the roof. Photo: N-TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smaller fragments acquired by Thierry Monter on 9 March 2026. Photo: SWR<\/p>\n\n\n

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Smaller fragments acquired by Thierry Monter on 9 March 2026. The crusted fragment at the bottom of the photo weighs 1.28 gram. Photo: Frank Wilde-Kutsch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Impact location on the roof in Koblenz-G\u00fcls<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The damaged roof at the impact site, inspected before the reparation in March 2026. It took craftsmen one day to fix the roof. Photo: Bartkowiak-Bedachungen\/Robert Bartkowiak<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fixed hole in the roof. Photo: SWR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fixed hole in the roof. Photo: Bild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fixed hole in the roof. Photo: Bild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Impacted rooftop in ‘Am M\u00fchlbach’ in Koblenz-G\u00fcls. Photo: Bild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bolide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide trajectory, as calculated by Geophysikalisches Institut (GPI) of the Karlsruher Instituts f\u00fcr Technologie (KIT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Map view of the seismic measuring stations (colored triangles) and the calculated trajectories of the IMO (blue) and the KIT-GPI (orange). Right: Seismograms on which the meteoroid signal is marked with red dotted lines. (Graphic: Dario Eickhoff \/ KIT)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Luxembourg National Seismic Network provided its analysis on 10 March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image: European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The figure shows the signal arrival times of the meteor burst at 34 seismic stations in Luxembourg and surroundings. The colored contour lines indicate the arrival times (30 to 440 sec) from 17:56 UTC on 8 March 2026. Filled triangles represent stations of the Luxembourg National Seismic Network (LuxSNet), open triangles are stations operated by partner institutions. The inset shows the seismic traces (vertical component) of the fireball signal over the LuxSNet stations. Red lines in the inset indicate the picked arrival times.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide recorded from Rettel, D\u00e9partement Moselle, France. The exact location of the camera position is very hard to determine. According to our own analysis of some visual features (roof of shed and high trees) within the image frame this recording could have been made from location 49\u00b026’55.5″N, 6\u00b020’07.7″E<\/a>, which is rather close to the beginning of the bolide’s trajectory heading north-east, almost in the zenith above the camera location. If our estimation is correct, the camera location would be 132.08 km southwest from the impact site in Koblenz-G\u00fcls. Video published by Jah Rastafari, filmed by his brother<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide filmed from location 49\u00b045’24.90″N, 6\u00b055’27.91″E<\/a> in Sch\u00f6nberg, Hunsr\u00fcck, Rhineland-Palatinate. Video: unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide, recorded from an interesting angle towards its trajectory, as it is moving almost towards the camera position. Captured by a weather cam which according to our own research can be found at this location 51\u00b014’58.9″N, 8\u00b049’18.8″E<\/a> in 34497 Goldhausen (Korbach), about 134.78 km north-east from the fall site in Koblenz (G\u00fcls). Video: Marcel Fihlon (Stormchaser Korbach)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide recorded from location 50\u00b01’33.61″N, 7\u00b015’27.80″E<\/a> in Tellig, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Video: Stef (stef2647)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bolide recorded from a point which, according to our own research, must be at location 49\u00b055’28.6″N, 5\u00b016’10.7″E<\/a> in Ochamps (Libin), Luxembourg province, Belgium, about 168.92 km west-to-southwest from the fall site in G\u00fcls. Video: Pauline Bartiaux<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bolide recorded from location 48\u00b056’34.1″N, 5\u00b059’39.7″E<\/a> in Villers-sous-Pr\u00e9ny, D\u00e9partement Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France, which is 191.77 km southwest from the impact site in G\u00fcls. Video published by Les Neigistes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide seen in the north-east from location 48\u00b046’10.8″N, 4\u00b050’55.0″E<\/a> in Pargny-sur-Saulx, Marne, France, which is 261.77 km south-west from the fall site in G\u00fcls. Video: Sandrine Fagni\u00e8res (Rousseau)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bolide recorded while driving north on the A35\/E24 at location 48\u00b033’57.0″N, 7\u00b043’58.0″E<\/a>, near Strasbourg. Video published by Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg on 11 March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide recorded from location 49\u00b050’37.7″N, 8\u00b007’11.9″E<\/a> in W\u00f6rrstadt. Video: Luca Peppler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide recorded from location 50\u00b043’59.8″N 5\u00b039’54.6″E<\/a> in Haccourt, Oupeye, Belgium, ~139.91 km west-to-northwest from the impact location in Koblenz. Video: Dav Id (8 March 2026, 20:14 CET)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bolide recorded from location 50\u00b038’17.4″N, 5\u00b035’12.0″E<\/a> in Li\u00e8ge, Belgium, which is 142.53 km west to west-northwest from the impact site in G\u00fcls. Video: David Bonet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolide recorded from location 49\u00b033’07.4″N, 8\u00b020’11.0″E<\/a> in Frankenthal, Germany. This is about ~104.57 kilometres south-southeast from the fall site in Koblenz-G\u00fcls. Video: Holger Sonntag<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Was ist das? — Was war das?<\/em>“. Bolide recorded from location 50\u00b057’31.3″N, 6\u00b047’59.2″E<\/a> in Pulheim, which is 86.34 km northwest of the fall site in Koblenz-G\u00fcls. Video: Mila Giese<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to our research this capturing of the bolide was recorded from location 49\u00b011’56.3″N, 6\u00b041’34.2″E<\/a> in Creutzwald, France, which is 141.33 km south-southwest from the fall site in G\u00fcls. Video: reeefa96 (Clochette)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This recording of the bolide was captured from location 49\u00b017’03.8″N 6\u00b046’58.8″E<\/a> in Bous, Saarland, Germany, which is 129.95 km south-southwest from the impact site. Video: Leon Urbex<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recording from location 48\u00b056’11.2″N, 6\u00b039’36.0″E<\/a> in Morhange, France, which is 169.04 km south-southwest from the impact site. Video: Romane Lallemand<\/p>\n\n\n\n