On 26 April 1803, a strong explosion was heard over L'Aigle, and a rain of stones fell around the city... A meteorite has fragmented into the atmosphere and thousands of meteorite stones are falling to the ground. The news arrives in Paris, where the Minister of the Interior sends the scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot to carry out an investigation. Biot’s study demonstrated for the first time the extraterrestrial origin of meteorites. The meteorite of L'Aigle enters then in the history of sciences...

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