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Although some hundreds of meteorites fall to the earth each year, only 5 to 10 of them are immediately recovered. Any witnessed meteorite fall, anywhere, is a noteworthy event, but the fall of the Wethersfield meteorite on November 8, 1982, was extraordinary for 2 reasons: it was the second meteorite to fall in the town of Wethersfield, Connecticut, in the incredibly short span of 11 years, and it crashed through the roof of a house without injuring the occupants, as the first Wethersfield meteorite had also done.
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A meteorite fell on Wethersfield on November 8, 1982. It was the second meteorite to fall in the town in the span of 11 years, and crashed through the roof of a house without injuring the occupants, as the first Wethersfield meteorite had also done. The Wethersfield Meteor was taken up as part of a collection at the Yale Peabody Museum

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The Wethersfield (L6) meteorite fell in Connecticut, USA, on the 8th November, 1982.
A total mass of 2.76 kg was recovered.

41° 42' 38"N, 72° 40' 25"W



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Wethersfield (1982) meteorite
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Although some hundreds of meteorites fall to the earth each year, only 5 to 10 of them are immediately recovered. Any witnessed meteorite fall, anywhere, is a noteworthy event, but the fall of the Wethersfield meteorite on November 8, 1982, was extraordinary for 2 reasons: it was the second meteorite to fall in the town of Wethersfield, Connecticut, in the incredibly short span of 11 years, and it crashed through the roof of a house without injuring the occupants, as the first Wethersfield meteorite had also done.
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A chip of meteorite as old as the solar system may have fallen on Danbury Monday night (Nov. 10, 1982), and scientists from the University of Connecticut plan to come here this week to search for  it.
Six Danbury and Bethel residents saw a meteorite blaze through the sky after it broke apart like a fiery pinwheel as it raced southwest through the Earth's atmosphere, and was sighted across Connecticut and as far afield as New Hampshire.
A six-pound chunk of the black stone tore through the roof of a Wethersfield house, the 11th meteorite to hit a building in 135 years of worldwide record-keeping, and the second in 11 years to hit a house in that town.
The Danbury fragment could have burned up completely or shrunk to the size of a marble.

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