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 | | On November 7, 1492, near noon, a loud explosion announced the fall of a 280-pound stone meteorite in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in the province of Alsace, France, which at the time was part of Germany. |
 | | King Maximilian of Germany, passing through Ensisheim three weeks later, examined the meteorite and proclaimed it a sign of God's wrath against the French, who were warring with the Holy Roman Empire. |
 | | There it remained, chained to the church, until the French Revolution, when it was confiscated from the church by French revolutionaries and placed on display in a new national museum in nearby Colmar. |
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