Saturday, November 29, 2008

This Day In History



On November 30, 1954, the Hodges Meteorite became the first extraterrestrial object on record to strike a human being, bouncing off a wooden radio console owned by Oak Hill, Alabama resident Ann Elizabeth Hodges, and deflecting onto her as she napped on her couch. Imagine the irony of being hit by a meteorite named after you...

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