Domenico Troili, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian astronomer
Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1722
Place of Birth: Macerata, Marche, Italy
Date of Death: 14-Feb-1793
Profession: astronomer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Domenico Troili
- Domenico Troili (1722–1792) was an Italian abbate and a Jesuit, who held the appointment of custodian of the library of the ruling family of Este in Modena.
- He is recognized as the first person who documented the fall of a meteorite, in 1766.Troili was a pupil of Roger Joseph Boscovich at the Collegio Romano, and supported his master's atomic theory explaining the properties of matter.
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