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Oesel meteorite

The Oesel meteorite, also known as the Kaande meteorite () or Kaanda meteorite, was a meteorite that fell in the village of Merise on the island of Saaremaa (formerly known as Oesel), Estonia, in 1855.

On May 11, 1855, a meteorite shower occurred, after which meteorite fragments were found on land belonging to the Kaanda farm in the village of Merise. The Oesel meteorite is a common stony meteorite, and it contains characteristic olivine-hypersthene chondrites up to in diameter. It had a mass of . This is the first meteorite in Estonia for which eyewitness descriptions have survived.

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