City Room Fireballs in the Sky Are Not Exclusive to Siberia

the Russian fireball last week was how impossibly improbable and exotic it seemed. Who would ever witness such a thing?But from 1807 — only 13 years after science recognized the extraterrestrial origin of meteorites — when a 300-pound space boulder screamed across the Connecticut sky and burst open across farmers’ fields 50 miles northeast of New York City, to the modern day, when, in 1992, a football-size projectile shot through a car trunk in Westchester County, the New York region has seen more than its share of meteors and meteorites, including some of literature’s most significant landi…

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