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Early in 1888, a colourful green meteor appeared in the night sky over Middleburg. Several witnesses watched it hit the ground in an old cultivated farm field south of town. Approaching the smoking crater, they found what looked like a 200-pound block of limestone.
A few months later, the meteorite was exhibited at the Sub-Tropical Exposition and then went on display in nearby Jacksonville. The stone was examined by a Dr Hahn, who claimed to have found miniature fossils in the rock. Dr Hahn photographed these 'microfossils' and then wrote an article which was published in Popular Science. Dr Hahn was roundly condemned by the scientific community for such heresy and Dr. Lawrence Smith wrote of him;

Doctor Hahn is a kind of half-insane man, whose imagination has run away with him.

Dr Smith, who never actually examined the meteor, advanced the opinion that the fossils were 'crystals of enstatite'. Not long afterwards the entire meteorite went missing, and it is not known whether it was broken up or shipped somewhere else to be investigated.
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In January, 1888, several Florida residents witnessed a "large green streak" falling through the sky. Known as a shooting star, the meteorite was visible throughout the entire southeast. Trying to project its final location and landing zone, each witness pointed to a field nearby where they were standing.
It turns out that the monstrous meteorite (the envy of the world) fell to the earth in Middleburg, Florida. It was late in the evening when several passersby witnessed its arrival then heard a tremendous "thud." Every house in the town shook.
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