This day in history April 26, 2020-meteor fragments
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Started by metmike - April 25, 2020, 11:43 p.m.

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1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.

1865   – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.


1989The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.


1991Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.


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By metmike - April 25, 2020, 11:46 p.m.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aigle_(meteorite)

In the early afternoon of 26 April 1803 a meteorite shower of more than 3000 fragments fell upon the town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France. Upon hearing of this event the French Academy of Sciences sent the young scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot to investigate that spectacular fall of stones. After painstaking work in the field he reported two kinds of evidence pointing to an extraterrestrial origin for the stones:[2]

  1. Physical evidence: the sudden appearance of many identical stones similar to other stones fallen from the sky in other places
  2. Moral evidence: a large number of witnesses who saw a "rain of stones thrown by the meteor"

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L'Aigle
L'Aigle meteoryt.jpgL'Aigle meteorite
TypeChondrite
ClassOrdinary chondrite
GroupL6
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
Coordinates48°46′N 0°38′ECoordinates: 48°46′N 0°38′E[1]
Observed fallYes
Fall date26 April 1803
TKW37 kg
Strewn fieldYes