Science now accepts the idea that rocks can fall from outer space onto Earth.
Major scientific theories, from the cataclysmic end of the dinosaurs to the possibility of life on Mars , turn on the existence of meteorites. This wasn't always the case, however. Until just two-hundred years ago, the best scientific minds of the era thought the idea of rocks falling from the sky was a bunch of hokum. The story of rocks falling from the sky started back in ancient times. In the temple of Apollo at Delphi sat a sacred stone that fell to the ground from the sky.