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L'Aigle is an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell near the town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France, on 26 April 1803. Thousands of stones reportedly reached the ground across a broad area, allowing physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot to collect testimony and examine physical evidence for the French Academy of Scie...
Wold Cottage is an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell near Wold Newton in Yorkshire, England, on 13 December 1795. Witnesses reported the stone striking the ground and excavated it from the resulting hole, providing unusually clear evidence at a time when the extraterrestrial origin of meteorites remai...
Mocs is an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell in 1882 near Mocs, in territory now belonging to Romania. The event produced a broad shower from which hundreds of individual stones were reportedly recovered, making it a well-represented historic fall. Its L classification denotes an ordinary chondrite gr...
Bruderheim is an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell near Bruderheim, Alberta, on March 4, 1960. The atmospheric breakup produced a widely observed fireball and a substantial strewn field from which roughly 300 kilograms of material were recovered. The large documented sample and equilibrated mineral co...
Holbrook is an L6 ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell near Holbrook, Arizona, on 19 July 1912. Witnesses observed a fireball and fragmentation, followed by a shower that scattered thousands of mostly small stones across the surrounding area. As an equilibrated ordinary chondrite, its mineral comp...
L6 ordinary chondrite that fell February 16, 1883, near Alfianello, Lombardy, Italy; its ~228 kg total mass ranks it among Italy's largest witnessed falls.
