* Astronomy

10. Meteorite in France. - Galignani's Messenger mentions that at a late session of the French Academy, a communication Avas received from M. Delavaux, stating that on the 12th of June, (1841,) between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the sky being without a cloud, an explosion was heard at Chateau Renard, in the department of Loiret, louder than several pieces of artillery firing together. He suspected that this must have proceeded from an aerolite ; and on going to the spot where the noise had been loudest, found there the marks where the aerolite had struck the earth, as well as several fragments of such a body, lying about. Most of these fragments were small, but one weighed thirty pounds, and another six pounds. - New York Observer, Aug, 14, 1841.
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