Passage:
In 1794, German physicist Ernst Chladni published a controversial treatise asserting that meteorites—masses of iron and stone that fall to Earth—originated in outer space rather than from terrestrial volcanic eruptions or atmospheric aggregations of dust, as contemporary natural philosophers maintained. Chladni reasoned that the extreme velocity and scorched exterior crusts of recovered iron masses indicated an extra-terrestrial origin outside Earth's atmosphere. Furthermore, he calculated that if these objects were produced by atmospheric processes, they would require chemical components not present in the upper atmosphere. Despite Chladni’s rigorous compilation of historical eyewitness reports and chemical samples, the scientific establishment initially rejected his hypothesis, deeming eyewitness accounts of falling rocks to be unscientific folklore. It was only after a massive meteorite shower at L'Aigle, France, in 1803—thoroughly documented by the French Academy of Sciences under Jean-Baptiste Biot—that Chladni's extraterrestrial theory gained widespread scientific acceptance.
According to the passage, Chladni based his assertion that recovered iron masses originated outside Earth's atmosphere on which of the following explicit details?
- The extreme velocity and scorched outer crusts observed on the iron massesCevap
- BThe detailed scientific documentation compiled during the 1803 L'Aigle meteorite shower
- CThe presence of chemical elements in meteorites that perfectly matched upper atmospheric dust
- DThe complete absence of prior eyewitness accounts attributing fallen stones to terrestrial volcanic eruptions
- ELaboratory experiments simulating the high-pressure aggregation of atmospheric dust particles