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Nov 30, 1954:
Meteorite strikes Alabama woman
The first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being
occurs at Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashes through
the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio,
and strikes a woman on the hip. The victim, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hodges, was sleeping on a couch at the time of impact. The space
rock was a sulfide meteorite weighing 8.5 pounds and measuring
seven inches in length. Mrs. Hodges was not permanently injured
but suffered a nasty bruise along her hip and leg.
Ancient Chinese records tell of people being injured or killed by
falling meteorites, but the Sylacauga meteorite was the first
modern record of this type of human injury. In 1911, a dog in
Egypt was killed by the Nakhla meteorite.
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