Lad Hit By Meteorite

[Beverley Lass]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...ite-strike.html

How rare for a human to be hit.

It was only pea-sized but made an impact !

BL

[jo200199]

WOWZA!!!!

[valiant]

See the other news headline? What's going on?

Here am I, with THREE multi-coloured wheelie bins cluttering up my drive and two other bins in my garage, and the Japanese are dumping THEIR garbage on the Moon at 4000 mph.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

I don't believe a word of it. A slight graze to the hand but a ft-wide crater (which they didn't photo)?

Never trust boys with long hair.

Edited June 12, 2009 by Osbourne One-Nil

[mushymanrob]

if its in 'the sun' then it must be true! :lol:

[Wynn D Woo]

if its in 'the sun' then it must be true! :lol:

Thats what i thought at first - Sky news has a bit more detail to this story

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-New..._At_30%2C000mph

[Methuselah]

Thats what i thought at first - Sky news has a bit more detail to this story

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-New..._At_30%2C000mph

Oh dear! I'll have to change my definition of a meteorite? I thought that meteors evaporate within the atmosphere, whereas meteorites reach the ground?

[Marcus_surfer]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...ite-strike.html

How rare for a human to be hit.

It was only pea-sized but made an impact !

BL :lol:

"The pea-sized space rock left a three-inch scar on the 14-year-old's hand - and smashed a foot-wide crater in the pavement."

How the hell can a pea-sized rock create a foot-wide crater in the pavement? :lol:

[Nick F]

Gutter Press ... gotta love it!!!

... surely would have ripped his hand off, not grazed it? Perhaps he was hit by a stone from the impact on the ground ... lol.

[PeteG]

How the hell can a pea-sized rock create a foot-wide crater in the pavement?

Because it would be moving extremely fast and have a lot of kinetic energy.

[J07]

Yeah. That happened to me once.

[Typhoon John]

Putting aside the doubts over the validity of the article, it says the odds are 1 in 100 million. Presumably that would be over the course of a lifetime. But considering the billions of people on the planet and only one other case of a human being hit, surely basic maths would say the odds are much longer?