A teenager was hit by a meteorite traveling at 30,000mph - and lived to tell the tale. Chances of being struck by a meteorite are around one in 100 million. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
man, thats awesome! what sucks is, its one of those things that if you said it at a bar while talking to people, no one would believe you.
I call bullshit. The story is that it "bounced off his hand," then hit the ground hard enough to create a 1-foot crater and send him flying backward. If that were true, I would expect there to be some extraordinary damage to his hand. Instead, he appears to have suffered little more than a cut.
I'm with Nasor. Wouldn't it have gone right through his hand? Bullets don't travel anywhere near the speed that is claimed for the meteorite, and they can definitely be fired through a hand.
Another media hype story to get attention. A bunch of crap is all that it is. He probably found the thing and the media "embellished" his story...as usual.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I really doubt that thing was going 30000MPH when it hit the ground(or his hand). Something is sure wrong with the story though, a 1foot wide crater is like a hand grenade going off, the kid should have tarmac in his body.
Also, what exactly do they mean by "Chances of being struck by a meteorite are around one in 100 million"? Are those the odds of being struck by a given meteor? The odds of being struck once during your lifetime? However you try to interpret it, there are 6 billion or so people on earth, and I don't see 60 people being struck by meteors...
That's exactly what I was thinking. An object with the energy to create a 'foot-long crater' doesn't just bounce off your hand, it goes straight through..
Funny how, in a silly story like this, everyone is in agreement that the media lies. However, in everything else that is IMPORTANT, and is of consequence, everyone believes the media, hook, line, and sinker. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Given the size of the meteorite, it couldn't have gone very fast at all.. I think it DID bounce off the kids hand and the crater must have been already there Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I'm extremely dubious about this story--however, there was a case a few decades ago where a woman was resting on a couch and was struck in the hip by a meteorite that came through her roof and ceiling, bounced off her and then the couch, and left a hole in the carpet. I'll see if I can find a link for you; I remeber reading this in a Life book about astronomy, and they had a photo of the burnt couch and the meteorite IIRR. Here's the link: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hodges.
What I don't understand is how it came to the attention of anyone that it was a meteorite. I mean if you're hit by a what looks like a teeny tiny stone you would just forget about it right? I mean what made him pay attention to it to the degree that someone tried to figure out what it was.
It was travelling at 30 000 mph and was in a fireball before creating a crater, that would probably capture your attention.
This is what happens when a jet hits concrete at 500mph: http://www.break.com/index/concreteplane.html How the "meteorite" didn't do that^ while going at 60 times the jet's speed makes this story pretty BS to me. Not to mention all the other stuff you guys have said^.
