* Astronomy

This object fell in India about twenty years ago. A loud explosion was heard, several fragments of stone were collected at distances miles apart: and when brought together, they were found to fit, so as to enable the primitive form of the meteorite to be re-constructed. A few of the pieces are wanting (they were, no doubt, lost by falling unobserved into localities from which they could not be recovered), but we have obtained pieces quite numerous enough to permit us to form a very good idea of the irregular shape of the object before the explosion occurred which shattered it into fragments.
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