* Astronomy

After detonations and appearance of fire-ball, a shower of stones fell, of which two are said to have weighed about 136 kg. and 91 kg. respectively, but only a few grams have been preserved (E. F. F. Chladni, Ann. Phvs. (Gilbert), 1803, vol. 15, p. 314, and 1815, vol. 50, p. 245; and Feuer-Meteore, Wien, 1819, p. 233). Of three small fragments referred to Vago in the Natural History Museum, Paris, in 1890, one was a cucrite, one (the largest, weighing 9 grams) an intermediate chondrite, and one a spherical chondrite (E. A. Wulfing, Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen, Tubingen, 1897, p. 375). Two pieces, of 26 and 7 grams respectively, in the Vienna collection in 1921, obtained by A. Brezina from the collection of Count Miniscalchi, are spherical chondrites ; these probably, and not the intermediate chondrite of Paris (as first supposed by Brezina), came from the original Vago, for the piece of Vago originally in the Moscaldo Museum in Veron passed into the possession of the Miniscalchi family (letter of June 23, 1922, of F. Koechhn, in Min. Dept., British Museum; and O. Buchner, Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen, Leipzig, 1863, p. 4).
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