L'Aigle
Month:
April 2009
April's Meteorite of the Month is L'Aigle, an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell in Orme, France on April 26, 1803. The L'Aigle fall event, which produced a shower of over 3000 stones, proved to European scientists that rocks fall from the sky. Although people had seen meteorites fall from the sky before 1803, their stories had typically been doubted by the scientific community. L'Aigle is on display in the Center for Meteorite Studies Museum.