* Astronomy

E.B. Andrews, a professor and geologist at Marietta College, described the scene in the July 1860 American Journal of Science.
"The sky was cloudy, but some of the stones were seen first as 'black specks,' then as 'black birds,' and finally falling to the ground," Andrews wrote. "A few were picked up within twenty or thirty minutes. The warmest was no warmer than if it had lain on the ground exposed to the sun's rays."
Andrews took his horse and his buggy to the fall site and secured the largest of the 24 fragments, the piece that's now held at the college, Voner said. It has no permanent viewing location, and as far as rocks go, it's not particularly pretty: It's blocky and pitted, its sharp edges rounded by the heat of the atmosphere.
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