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According to ancient authors, from Aristotle onwards, a meteorite the size of a "wagonload" crashed into northern Greece sometime between 466 and 468 BC. The impact shocked the local population and the rock became a tourist attraction for 500 years.

Thanks Palter! A nice two-list topic. Aristotle for his part continuously denied that stones could fall from the sky, claiming quite pontifically that such reports were attributable to two causes -- one, ignorant unschooled rural buffoons, and two, stones lifted by the winds from elsewhere on the Earth's surface.

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This topic was posted 9/10/2010, thanks Palter, wherever you are. Just a refresh of the old ping messages, nothing more. Nice twofer.

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Aristotle's Meteorologica, a treatise on the Earth and its surroundings, maintained that solid bodies other than the Sun, Moon and planets could not exist in space... Commenting upon the stone that had fallen at Aegospotami in Thrace c. 469-467BC (today's Gallipoli Peninsula) Aristotle claimed it was a terrestrial rock, lifted by strong winds then dropped back to earth.

Fire in the sky
-- a history of meteoritics
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February 3, 2022

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