[meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Girl? Boy?

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:34:06 -0700
Message-ID: <4A31400E.4000703_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Sorry instead of "And what is the stone that hit them?" I didn't
actually mean them in the plural sense... I didn't know whether to say
her or him. So don't yell at me for thinking this is a meteorite or that
there are multiple "victims". ;) Sorry for the confusion...



Meteorites USA wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This just in...
>
> Two German news sites report a 14 year old was hit by a meteorite.
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
> "...A pebble-sized meteorite crashed and burned into Earth, grazing
> 14-year-old Gerritt Blank while on his way to catch the school bus..."
>
> Meteor hits boy on way to school
> Published: 11 Jun 09 11:46 CET
>
> ?At first, I only saw a big, white ball of light. Then, my hand hurt,
> and then it slammed into the street,? he told daily /Westdeutsche
> Allgemeine Zeitung/. ?After I saw the white light, I felt something on
> my hand.?
>
> The result was a 10-centimetre burn on the back of his left hand, but
> Blank knew something special had happened to him.
>
> ?I thought the meteor struck me, but it could also be a result from
> the heat as it went by me,? he said.
>
> After the intial shock, Blank looked at the glowing rock the left a
> sizable crater in Brakeler Wald Street. He then took the iced tea from
> his school lunch and doused his glowing pebble and took it to school
> with him.
>
> ?At school, I told the story. My classmates believed me,? he said. His
> parents didn?t get to hear the story until the end of the school day.
>
> Once home, Blank, who plans to focus his studies in science, tested
> the round, black object and already found some confirmation the pebble
> is from outer space: like many meteorites, the rock is magnetic.
>
> Approximately 3,000 meteorites hit the Earth?s surface daily.
>
> SOURCE: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090611-19857.html
>
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>
> Another site reports:
>
> SPACE ATTACK Girl hit by stone from sky
>
> SPACE ATTACK. The girl shows the spot where the stone fell.
> A girl from Essen, Germany has been hit by a stone falling from the
> sky. The 14-year old said: ?I was on my way to school. I saw a white
> cone of light. Then my hand started hurting.? The stone made a 10cm
> cut in her hand and then fell to the ground. ?I poured ice tea over it
> and took it with me,? she said. But where did the stone come from?
> Could it be a meteorite? Experts will have to explain.
>
> SOURCE:
> http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-ticker/world/2009/06/11/stone-falling-from-space-hits-girl.html
>
>
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>
> So is it a boy or a girl? And what is the stone that hit them?
>
> Anyone else have any info?
>

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Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA
http://www.meteoritesusa.com
904-236-5394

Received on Thu 11 Jun 2009 01:34:06 PM PDT