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The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth of the solar system

  • Written by William Herbst, Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University
Geminid meteors shower downward on a December night in a remote part of Virginia. Genevieve de Messieres/Shutterstock.com

April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L’Aigle in Normandy, France – it rained rocks.

Over 3,000 of them fell out of the sky. Fortunately no one was injured. The French Academy of Sciences investigated...

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