Stones Too Hot to Pick Up

Fallen meteoric stones are hot when found, smell strongly of sulphur, and wear a black crust.
A meteorite fallen in Yorkshire in December 1795 weighed fifty-six pounds and buried itself twenty-one inches.
The Villefranche meteorite of 1798 resembled a calf's head and smelled strongly of gunpowder.
At L'Aigle in Normandy, April 1803, a cloud burst and rained stones of five to seventeen pounds.
The L'Aigle stones landed so hot they burnt the first people who tried to lift them.

Stones Too Hot to Pick Up

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