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Friday, June 12, 2009

... but it's the same odds as getting hit by a meteor, so what are you worried about?

Boy Hit by Meteorite - Yahoo! News
A 14-year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite that scared the bejeezus out of him and left a scar.

"When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road," Gerrit Blank said in a newspaper account. Astronomers have analyzed the object and conclude it was indeed a natural object from space, The Telegraph reports.


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