Woman hanging out washing 'hit by meteorite'

[emad]

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By Mark Prigg, Evening Standard
17 August 2004

A woman believes she was hit by a meteorite fragment while hanging out her washing. Pauline Aguss was in the garden when she felt a searing pain and noticed a cut on her arm. She said: "It looked black and peculiar. I went indoors and put a plaster on."

It was not until the next day that her husband Jack found a walnut-sized rock on the path. Mrs Aguss, 76, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, said: "It was an odd shape and you could see a few small crystals in it.

"That is when we realised it might have been a meteorite and now, after talking to people who know about these things, we are 99 per cent certain." The odds against being hit by a meteorite are billions to one. On average one a week falls to earth but most are burned up as they enter the atmosphere at 40,000mph.

Norfolk Astronomical Society chairman Mark Lawrick-Thompson said: "There is a good chance this is a meteorite. It is very rare indeed to find one."
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/12620274?source=Evening%20Standard

Gota be the best reason not to do any housework ever again....

[Kierkegaard]

1. al Queida strikes again!

Shouldn't the UK get a terror alert system like our highly effective model here in the States?

[CanuckAmok]

2. If it comes to that, the meterorites have won.

n/t

[djeseru]

4. It's because they hate our freedoms,

...isn't it?

[mark11727]

3. Meteorites attack!