The Weston meteorite is a meteorite

Meteorite

A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface. Meteorites can be big or small. Most meteorites derive from small astronomical objects called meteoroids, but they are also sometimes produced by impacts of asteroids...

 which fell to earth above the town of Weston, Connecticut

Weston, Connecticut

Weston is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The population was 10,179 at the 2010 census. The town is served by Route 57 and Route 53, both of which run through the town center. About 19% of the town's workforce commutes to New York City, about to the southwest.Like many towns in...

 at approximately 6:30 in the morning on December 14, 1807. The meteor fall was widely witnessed and reported in newspaper accounts at the time. Eyewitnesses reported three loud explosions, and stone fragments fell in at least six locations.

Fragments from the fall were collected, documented, and chemically analyzed by Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 professors Benjamin Silliman

Benjamin Silliman

Benjamin Silliman was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science , and the first to distill petroleum.-Early life:...

 and James Kingsley

James Kingsley

James Kingsley was an attorney and mayor of Ann Arbor from 1855-1856.Attorney James "Honest Jim" Kingsley, who came to Ann Arbor in 1826, was the first member of the Washtenaw County Bar, a probate judge, and a member of both the territorial and later the state legislature, as well as Ann Arbor's...

. The Weston meteorite is the first meteorite to fall in the New World

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 which was documented in such a manner, marking the beginning of meteorite science in the United States

United States

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. Fragments of the meteorite remain within the Yale meteorite collection, which is the oldest such collection in the United States.