Woman Survived a Direct Hit by a Meteorite, the Only Person in History

Alright you gamblers! What do you think is the probability of getting hit by a meteorite? Would you even bet on that? According to scientists, you have higher chances to get struck by lightning, hit by a tornado, and blown away by a hurricane — all at the same time. However, there was one person who got this lucky chance! Um, maybe we shouldn’t exactly say “lucky” here?
In the early hours of November 30, 1954, a meteorite hit the roof of a home in the small town of Syl-a-cauga. The house's owner, Eugene Hodges, rushed home, only to find a huge crowd of gawkers looking at his dwelling, agitated and pointing fingers. He had to push them away from his doorstep to get to his wife, Ann, who was still inside. When Eugene opened the front door, what he saw shocked him.
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TIMESTAMPS:
What happened to Ann 0:32
Why she had a nervous breakdown 2:33
Why meteorites are rare guests on our planet 3:55
Meteorites VS. Meteors 4:20
Chelyabinsk meteor 4:54
The most powerful meteor strike 6:07
Are we in danger? 8:07
Music by Epidemic Sound
SUMMARY:
- Ann was laying on her couch, obviously in pain, an enormous bruise on her side. The roof had a large round hole in it, as if something big crashed through it.
- Everyone was in near panic because of the event. Some believed it was just a part of a wrecked airplane that fell somewhere around, while others thought it was a missile attack or something.
- The doctors who treated her confirmed a severe bruise, but nothing life-threatening. The meteorite itself was taken by the police and given to the US Air Force for inspection. There, experts confirmed it was indeed a chunk of space rock.
- Up to this day, Ann Hodges remains the only human to have ever been struck by a meteorite in the known history.
- Anyway, meteorites are extremely rare guests on our planet, mostly thanks to the layers of atmosphere that protect us from space assaults.
- One of the most spectacular examples of a meteor explosion was in 2013 in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
- Nobody really understood what was happening, and the confusion reached its peak when the shockwave struck. It sounded like a cannon shot, and the ground shook, rolling through the whole city.
- It was estimated that the explosion was about 30 times more powerful than an atomic bomb.
- But that wasn’t even the most powerful meteor strike witnessed by humans in the recent history. That one happened in the beginning of the 20th century, and it was also in Russia — namely, Tunguska, Siberia.
- To understand the sheer scale of the explosion, just imagine that a huge rock, weighing over 220 million pounds, entered the Earth’s atmosphere at the speed of 33,500 mph, and heated the air around it to the whopping 44,500°F.
- The space rock that exploded in the sky above Siberia was twice the size of the Chelyabinsk meteor and almost ten times as heavy.
- There were, of course, even more powerful and horrifying meteor events, such as one that presumably killed off the dinosaurs millions of years ago, but these two are probably the most impressive strikes in human history.
- However, rest assured: nothing big is coming our way in the near future, so we shouldn’t worry about meteorites any time soon.
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