Exhibitions

Wethersfield Meteorites

July 22, 1983 – October 30, 1983

National Museum of Natural History
10th St. & Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

Ground Floor, Constitution Ave. Lobby

See on map Floor Plan

View two celebrated meteorites that fell in the same town, Wethersfield, Connecticut, eleven years apart. This is a rare coincidence. The meteorite that fell in 1971 is part of the NMNH collections; the November 1982 meteorite is on loan from the owners, in whose home it came to rest.