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TKW 5 kg. Observed fall 13 June 1819, Poitou-Charentes, France.


Pierre-Marie writes:

Part of my collection (provenance: Gero Kurat, 1999, Wien Museum; then Bruno Fectay)

L.-B. Fleuriau de Bellevue, “Memoir on the meteoric stones and especially those which fell near Jonzac, in the month of june 1819», Journal de Physique et de chimie, 1821:

On the 13th of June 1819, at a quarter for six in the morning, the sky being very calm and cloudless, a hail of stones fell in the area of Jonzac as a result of three detonations. At first a stroke of medium strength was heard, then a long rolling with cracks and a sound of musketry, which lasted for a minute and a half, and ended with two other detonations, the last one extremely violent.

This fall took place in the towns of Archiac, Saint-Eugene, Moingts, Saint-Martial near Jonzac, Allas-Champagne, Brie, and Saint-Ciers-Champagne. The area on which these stones spread is a kind of triangle, the long side of which is more than six thousand toises^* in length from north-east to south-west, and the smallest side nearly 4000 toises from north to south.

The whistle which their fall caused in the air was heard by several persons. Workmen who were near a tree even saw that these stones damaged it. The largest of them weighs six pounds, others four, and most of them are small. Both have fallen nearly equally to the north as to the south. The next day they found one which had made a hole in the earth and may have burnt the grass around it.

^* a "toise" is an old unit of measure of about 1.94 meters

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