The Kaba meteorite (original Hungarian name: Kabai meteorit), a 2,601 kilogram stone, struck the outskirts of the Hungarian town of Kaba on 15 April 1857 at around 10 pm. The roughly loaf-shaped meteorite has a maximum diameter of 16.4 centimeters, a minimum diameter of 10 centimeters and a height of 10.8 centimeters. Its mass on the ground must have been about 4 kilograms. Its official name as recorded in the Meteoritical Bulletin is Kaba. It was one of the first meteorites in which organic material was detected. Its carbon content is 2% by weight. Containing relatively large chondrules, it is a CV3-type carbonaceous chondrite, which is relatively rare among meteorites. Its cosmological study offers a wealth of information on the period of formation of the solar system. History after impact Gábor Szilágyi, a farmer from Kaba, observed the meteorite fall and hit the ground at about 10 o'clock in the evening of 15 April 1857, and the next day he found it and dug it out of the ground, taking his neighbors with him. The stone, intact when found, must have weighed almost 4 kg (7 lbs), but was mutilated by the locals in the hope of finding precious metals. Finally, a few days later, thanks to Kaba's magistrates, the meteorite, still weighing almost 3 kg, was taken to the Debreceni Református Kollégium, where József Török, a teacher of natural history, was the first expert to handle it. On 7 June 1858, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he gave a thorough description of it and presented a three-page drawing of it, based on photographs by Emmanuel Mariotte. The first description already referred to the black balls, the size of a peppercorn, some of which have a shell-like structure. This chondritic character of the meteorite was described by the academic as 'unparalleled'. Because of its discovery and where it is preserved, the meteorite was referred to as the "Kaba-Debrecen flint" in contemporary reports. The college did not hand over the stone, despite the demands of the Imperial Cabinet of Mineralogy in Vienna, but some fragments were sent to the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler, who carried out a chemical analysis of the stone for two consecutive years. The stone is still kept in the museum of Debreceni Református Kollégium Múzeuma, and its fragments can be found in about twenty places around the world, including Kolkata, London, Vienna, Moscow and Washington. Every