A meteorite fell on the 15th of June 1821, and it was named the Juvinas meteorite. It fell in the hamlet of Libonès, at a place called “le Cros du Libonès” (in French). It is a
eucrite, coming from the
Vesta minor planet, the 4th asteroid by size from the
main asteroid belt, between
Jupiter and
Mars. Half of the original recovered fall is still kept in the French national collection of
meteorites at
MNHN museum, in
Paris,
France. The remaining was kept in neighborhood family homes, but the lack of transmission of their origin through successive generations ended with the loss, by discarding, of most if not all of these therefore unidentified pieces. ==See also==