Camira raised her hand. "Aristotle took the position that strong winds had lifted an Earth rock into the sky, then dropped it.
An alternate theory was developed to explain stones
that fell from the sky. This theory held that meteorites somehow
formed in the sky during violent thunderstorms. Proponents of
this idea suggested that particles inside the clouds consolidated
because of the heat during a lighting flash. For this reason
the rocks were sometimes referred to as thunderstones."