The specified location is the so-called Solus Lacus on Mars, while the date refers to the earliest witnessed meteorite in the West, still existing today. It was a “media” event, with broadsheets printed and at the time was read as a propitious sign for an impending battle by King Maximilian with the French in 1492. The meteorite event then had historical consequences, even though it is little know today.

The familiarity with the date from other events is intended: the landfall of Colombus in Caribbean, the fall of Granada, the edict of expulsions of Jews from Spain, are other associations that come to mind in this period.