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400 Robey: An Hypothesis on the Slow Moving Green Fireballs Il, BACKGROUND In 180. convinced French Academy of Science was finally years of resistance, that meteorite: ore eMraterrestrial (not atmospheric), Biot made detailed study of some stones that fell out of the sky at LA . in Normandy, and concluded to the demy’s satisfaction that they did indeed fall from the surrounding space Prior to the cighicenth century, meteors were believed ‘al phenomena such as atmospheric ‘onsequently, learned...