Halley’s Comet drops meteorite in Texas

On this day in 1910, a 500-pound meteorite fell to earth outside the northeast Texas community of Charleston during the passage of Halley’s Comet. Delta County’s most publicized event of the decade was not without precedent, however, as more than 230 meteorites have been catalogued in Texas.

Halley’s Comet drops meteorite in northeast Texas, Texas Day by Day