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

[GeoZay at aol.com]

I'm not sure where to start with this one. It  could be a meteorite that 
hit the childs hand, but with an embellished story to  go with it. Or a pebble 
thrown at the child by either another person or perhaps  a passing vehicle, 
but still accompanied with an embellished story. The boy saw  a "white 
Light" and soon afterwards "felt something on his hand. "  Well  this could be a 
case of a person describing what they think should have happen  if it was a 
meteorite that hit them. But this is where they trip themselves up.  If it 
was glowing to the point it burnt him as it went by, I doubt the boy would  
be alive to tell this tale. Either by the large boulder sized rock that it 
would  have to be in order to be glowing on ground impact or the concussion 
when it hit  the ground...apparently right next to him. then he states that 
the pebble left a  sizable crater to which he stared at the glowing rock. 
Then afterwards doused it  with his ice tea and took it to school with him. I 
also find it interesting that  there's no report of any sonic boom...which 
I'm sure there would have been one  for a large rock that glowed to the 
ground. But since he says it was a pebble,  No sonic boom reports would be normal. 
Me thinks this kid suckered in a lot of  folks with some wishful thinking.  
Perhaps he could do better selling  bridges? 
GeoZay

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


"...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.<<  

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