Hello Pierre, L'Aigle In 1803 the L'Aigle meteorite fell in Orne, France. It is a Stone meteorite, classified as a L6, Olivinehypersthene chondrite. After the appearance of a fireball, followed by detonations, a shower of stones, estimated at 20003000 in number and of aggregate weight about 37kg, the largest weighing about 9kg, fell within an area of 6 x 2.5 miles. The detailed report of the phenomena first established beyond doubt the fact of the fall of stones from outer space, J.B. Biot, Mém. Inst. France, 1806, 7, (Histoire), p.224 J.B. Biot, Ann. Phys. (Gilbert), 1804, 16, p.44. Description, H. Pfahler, Tschermaks Min. Petr. Mitt., 1892, 13, p.362. Analysis, E.H. von Baumhauer, Arch. Néerland. Sci. Nat. Haarlem, 1872, 7, p.154. Analysis, olivine Fa23, 22.79 % total iron, R.T. Dodd and E. Jarosewich, Meteoritics, 1981, 16, p.93 Orne France
Tim Heitz Midwest Meteorites - http://www.meteorman.org/ Pierre wrote:
Hello,
I'm studying the L'Aigle meteorite fall as I live only at 150km from the "official" fall in Normandy. I say official as I've heard of a study done in the 70's which said that the searchers found new fragments west of L'Aigle, on a massive zone from 2000 km square and that there should be still thousands of fragments to find.
Do you have some information about this research or did you found yourseld another fragments ?
Thanks and happy new year.
Pierre
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