220 years ago in the afternoon, thousands of small meteorite fragments rained down from the sky over L’Aigle, France. Upon hearing of this event, the French Academy of Sciences sent the young scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot to investigate the spectacular fall of stones. Biot’s paper on the subject effectively birthed the research field of “meteoritics.” READ more… […]
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