Weston meteorite

The Weston meteorite, an H4 ordinary chondrite, fell over Weston, Connecticut, about 6:30 in the morning on December 14, 1807, in a widely witnessed event marked by three loud explosions and stone fragments landing at at least six sites. Though named for Weston, most of the debris field lay around what is now Easton Reservoir in present-day Easton, with additional fragments found in western Trumbull. The fall became significant in American science when Yale professors Benjamin Silliman and James Luce Kingsley collected, documented, and chemically analyzed fragments, the first such study of a meteorite fall in the New World. Nathaniel Bowditch also examined the event, and pieces remain in Yale’s meteorite collection.

Weston, Connecticut · United States