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

[Meteorites USA]

Hi all,

This just in...

Two German news sites report a 14 year old was hit by a meteorite.

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"...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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Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA
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