Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Weston meteorite" in English language version.
Suddenly the heavens above [Judge Nathan] Wheeler's farm exploded as a fireball raced across the onyx sky. Everything lit up—his home, his barns, the trees, the blue stone walls.
Two or three days after the fall, Professor Benjamin Silliman heard of it and - with Professor James L. Kingsley - immediately went to Weston to investigate. [...] After reading the report by the two professors, President Thomas Jefferson reputedly exclaimed: "It's easier to believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven!"
Fragments of the exploding stone had rained about the town, and one large piece struck not two rods distant from the Prince house. This intrepid family, upon discovering the treasure that had buried itself in their front yard, promptly dug it up and smashed it apart, discerning, with a sense of true Yankee economy, that if one stone could be valuable, many were more so.
Coordinates that best express the Weston fall are 41°16'N, 73°16'W (see new publication by Robson and Pagliaro 2009). The Weston meteor was observed for approximately ten seconds at 06:00 Eastern Standard Time (11:00 UTC) on 1807 December 14 over New York state and New England. The meteor's atmospheric trajectory was on a course of 155 degrees azimuth (NW to SE) at a slope to the horizon of 30 degrees. The meteor became visible at an altitude of approximately 84 km and its terminal point was at an altitude of approximately 16 km. A significant fragmentation of the meteoroid occurred in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut at an altitude of 30 km. Upper air winds distributed the seven fragments recovered into a classical elliptical pattern (centered on the above given coordinates); the major axis being 12 km and orientated north to south. The total mass is ~20 kg. The main mass landed on a rock outcropping in a pasture in Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, within 100 m of 41°12'50" N and 73°15'43"W.
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 the New World. Fragments collected by Silliman and Kingsley were the first catalogued objects in the Yale meteorite collection, the oldest such collection in the United States. News reports of the day and subsequent inventories suggest that there were several dozen fragments, which have a combined mass of ~ 150 kg. The Weston meteorite is an H4 ordinary chondrite
Coordinates that best express the Weston fall are 41°16'N, 73°16'W (see new publication by Robson and Pagliaro 2009). The Weston meteor was observed for approximately ten seconds at 06:00 Eastern Standard Time (11:00 UTC) on 1807 December 14 over New York state and New England. The meteor's atmospheric trajectory was on a course of 155 degrees azimuth (NW to SE) at a slope to the horizon of 30 degrees. The meteor became visible at an altitude of approximately 84 km and its terminal point was at an altitude of approximately 16 km. A significant fragmentation of the meteoroid occurred in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut at an altitude of 30 km. Upper air winds distributed the seven fragments recovered into a classical elliptical pattern (centered on the above given coordinates); the major axis being 12 km and orientated north to south. The total mass is ~20 kg. The main mass landed on a rock outcropping in a pasture in Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, within 100 m of 41°12'50" N and 73°15'43"W.
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 the New World. Fragments collected by Silliman and Kingsley were the first catalogued objects in the Yale meteorite collection, the oldest such collection in the United States. News reports of the day and subsequent inventories suggest that there were several dozen fragments, which have a combined mass of ~ 150 kg. The Weston meteorite is an H4 ordinary chondrite
Two or three days after the fall, Professor Benjamin Silliman heard of it and - with Professor James L. Kingsley - immediately went to Weston to investigate. [...] After reading the report by the two professors, President Thomas Jefferson reputedly exclaimed: "It's easier to believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven!"
