[meteorite-list] It Came From Outer Space

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jul 1 21:24:10 2005
Message-ID: <200507020123.j621N9e23018_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1650932.html

It Came From Outer Space
Channel 6 News (Omaha, Nebraska)
July 1, 2005

Fairbury, Nebraska is a relatively small place compared to the universe.
The odds of a meteorite just missing Brad Kinzie's noggin are unfathomable.

But Mr. Kinzie was out watering his lawn early last Saturday morning
when something cosmic went whizzing past him.

"It just came flying past my head and skipped down on the ground," he
says. "Landed over that way and I said, 'Wow, that's close.'"

The nugget from above sat glowing on Brad's lawn and Brad scrambled into
the house beaming.

"I ran back in and told my wife in there. I said 'honey, you'll never
guess what happened,' 'cause she was asleep and she says 'what? What?' I
says 'a shooting star come over my head and landed out in the front
grass.' She says 'really?' and I says 'Yeah and it's still out there.'"

Hyde Observatory Board of Supervisors Chairman Erik Hubl says this sort
of thing doesn't happen very often.

He says, "They're rare events when they strike a car and even rarer when
they strike a person. So if this fall came very close to this gentleman,
he's very fortunate and possibly very lucky to have the meteorite that
did that."
Received on Fri 01 Jul 2005 09:23:08 PM PDT