Second Meteorite Hits Connecticut House Within a Month

It looks like Connecticut towns are a new target for space rocks, with a second meteorite hitting a Connecticut house in less than a month last Wednesday, in the city of Waterbury. The place is just two miles away from Walcott, where the April collision took place, reports NECN News.

The meteorite, which was found in the front yard of a Waterbury home, is nearly 4 inches long and weighs close to 1.6 pounds. The dark crust, magnetic nature and interior color matched that of the Wolcott meteorite, confirming that the space rock is indeed a meteorite.

"That's just crazy. It's just unbelievable," Waterbury resident Jay Langlois expressed to New England Cable News. His house was impacted by the meteorite fall. On finding the meteorite, he contacted Yale University to examine the rock.  It is currently being examined by Dr. Stefan Nicolescu at Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History.

"The first impression is that you would think that the two are connected," Dr. Nicolescu explained to the Connecticut Post. "The Waterbury one was not an 'observed fall,' so we really don't know exactly when it fell. We do know that it fell very recently, however."

Only after analyzing the meteorite that hit the neighboring town Walcott will he be able to state whether the two are connected.

He continues to state that nearly 15,000 tons of extraterrestrial materials strike the Earth every year, and since Connecticut is a highly populated area, the chances of finding these materials are high.