The Meteorite of Ensisheim: 1429-1992
Abstract
The history of the 127 kg stony meteorite that fell at Ensisheim in Alsace on November 7, 1492 is reviewed along with people's responses to it through the 500 years since the fall. Stories surrounding the various theories of the time are shown by poems, religious tracts, graphic illustrations and paintings, and broadsheets issued over various periods in the context of politics. Consideration is given to the Ensisheim Stone as analyzed in Paris and Berlin.
- Publication:
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Meteoritics
- Pub Date:
- March 1992
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1992Metic..27...28M
- Keywords:
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- Meteoritic Composition;
- Meteoroid Showers;
- Nuclear Explosions;
- Stony Meteorites;
- Earth Surface;
- Meteoritic Microstructures;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration;
- History of Meteorite Research