A slice of the Barbotan Meteorite that fell on July 24, 1790 in France.
Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2kFjV15
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Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2kFjV15
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Meteorite Fall from 1790, before Scientists Thought it Possible that Rocks Could Fall from the Sky
Christie's described this slice of science history as such: "BARBOTAN METEORITE SHOWER OF 1790 — THAT REPORTEDLY KILLED A HERDSMAN A remarkable celestial event was witnessed by a physicist in Pau, France in the late 1700s.Flickr