What aspect of meteorites did Jean-Baptiste Biot establish?
Their composition
Their origin
Their reality
Their impact sites
Answer
Jean-Baptiste Biot established the reality of meteorites, when he proved that a meteorite that had fallen in 1768 near the village of L'Aigle in Normandy was in fact from outer space. Biot's experiment was a key step in the acceptance of the scientific theory that meteorites were not terrestrial rocks, but instead came from space.
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