This work focuses on the historical and scientific investigation of a presumed meteorite fall that occurred in the Sicilian township of Marsala in 1834. Preliminary studies have classified this phenomenon as a “doubtful meteorite.” This term describes, according to the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society, an object for which there was significant uncertainty over whether it was a real meteorite or, in some cases, whether it ever existed. Thanks to the analysis of untapped sources, the first objective of this work is to clarify the nature of the event. Subsequently, the results of the minero-chemical analyses that were performed, in 1835, on two fragments recovered after the event are discussed for the first time. This work then shows the collecting history of one of the presumed meteorite specimens. Based on the results presented here, this work highlights the role of doubtful meteorites as a fundamental resource for the history of meteoritics and meteorite collecting as well as for studying the processes that have led to the scientific study of meteorites.

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存在与否，这是个问题：Marsala 陨石（意大利，1834 年）和可疑陨石在陨石史上的作用

这项工作的重点是对 1834 年发生在西西里岛马尔萨拉镇的推测陨石坠落的历史和科学调查。初步研究将这种现象归类为“可疑陨石”。根据陨石学会命名委员会的说法，这个术语描述了一个物体，对于它是否是真正的陨石，或者在某些情况下，它是否曾经存在过有很大的不确定性。由于对未开发资源的分析，这项工作的第一个目标是澄清事件的性质。随后，首次讨论了 1835 年对事件发生后回收的两个碎片进行的矿物化学分析的结果。然后，这项工作显示了其中一个推测的陨石标本的收集历史。