Weston Meteorite
This H4 Chondrite began a scientific turning point.
On December 14, 1807, a widely witnessed meteorite fall over Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut, brought the new science of meteoritics to the United States.
Recovered, documented, and chemically analyzed by Yale University professors Benjamin Silliman and James Kingsley, the Weston meteorite became the first such scientifically verified meteorite fall in America.
Fragments collected by Silliman and Kingsley were the first cataloged objects in the Yale meteorite collection, the oldest such collection in the United States.
Here's a great article in The Christian Science Monitor, 2007, on the 200 year anniversity:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1213/p20s01-usgn.html |
