[meteorite-list] Wethersfield Meteorites was "Qhestion"

[Paul]

Michael L Blood asked:

"In 1971 a meteorite struck a hous in 
Wethersfield,Conn. As if that weren't 
enough, ANOTHER meteorite struck 
another house in that small town in 1982! 
I'm stoked.  However, I have NEVER 
seen either of these falls available for 
sale. Has ANYONE on the list seen either/ 
both of these falls available for sale? 
Anyone have any?"

The main mass of the 1982 fall is in the Peabody 
Museum of Natural History as noted in The Wethersfield 
Meteorite, Meteorites and Planetary Science, Peabody 
Museum of Natural History at:

http://www.yale.edu/peabody/collections/met/index.html

There was only 52 grams of fragments, which broke off of 
the 2.756 kg main mass. I suspect that these were consumed
in the studies of the meteorite mentioned in the above 
article.

The 1971 meteorite is owned by the Division of Meteorites 
of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. From what I 
found, there was only a main mass of 350 grams, which the 
Smithsonian now has.

Yours,

Paul H.


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