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

Tue Jun 16 10:11:34 EDT 2009

Hello list,

This story, in my very humble opinion, is rubbish. But I tried to convince myself and phoned the newspaper that has published it first. No detailled answer yet, the lady said "the stone is beeing inspected", did not know by whom. I will later try again to speak with one of the responsibles of the article. Will let you know if I learn something new!

Cheers, Jan

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:26:22 +0200
> Von: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Boy?

> Yep,
> 
> but the headlines are changing, sometimes to a super-dramatic "Teen
> Survives
> direct hit from a 30,000 mph space rock" 
> 
> and also the details in the story get embroidered.
> Sometimes the boy was going home, sometimes he tried to catch the school
> bus. Completley new is, that his ears were ringing for hours after the
> fall
> happened.
> And his scar id getting longer, the "crater" broader and the "meteorite"
> faster and faster!  (record I read was 250,000 mph).
> 
> So far I remember only one article in English language, where a critical
> voice was heard - when somebody asked Darryll Pitt.
> 
> A clarification or disclaimer we never will read.
> As after the news has lost its sensation and is getting old, it will be
> over.
> 
> Like it was with the Grandma from UK, the girl from UK or Grampa's arbour
> burnt down by meteoritic fire in Germany,
> There you never heard about again.
> 
> Best!
> Martin
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Meteorites USA [mailto:eric at meteoritesusa.com] 
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. Juni 2009 17:36
> An: Martin Altmann; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Boy?
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Thanks again for the link...
> 
> This story is running rampant across the whole internet. You can't surf 
> the web without running into this story. And worse... It's all merely 
> the same thing being repeated and retold all over the web from the 
> original story. No verification, no reliable test results, and no fact 
> checking at all. Just rampant rumor... It's dumb that people can't find 
> out what really happened before posting this story all over. Even 
> Discovery magazine posted something about it, though in a debunking sort 
> of way. Normally I would have posted an article on my site about this by 
> now on something this significant, but without any verification it's 
> pointless.
> 
> Jeez, if it's real then I'm totally stoked! This would be an historical 
> event to say the least. But either way someone needs to do some 
> investigation and post the truth about it regardless of what that truth 
> turns out to be. Too bad I don't speak German, I'd be all over this story!
> 
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
> 
> 
> Martin Altmann wrote:
> > Ja but they're changing the story to make it more interesting.
> >
> > Read from U.K.
> >
> > "Chemical tests on the rock have now proved it is from outer space.
> >
> > Ansgar Korte, director of Germany's Walter Hohmann Observatory, said:
> "It's
> > a real meteorite, therefore it is very valuable to collectors and
> > scientists."
> >
> >
> > And here is the original, they're referring to:
> >
> >
> http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/essen/2009/6/9/news-122291315/de
> > tail.html
> >
> >
> > Where Korte is quoted:" If it's really a true meteorite, then the
> specimen
> > will have a certain value for collectors and mineralogists"
> >
> > And in the following he recommends places, where the stone could be
> tested,
> > whether it is a meteorite.
> >
> >
> > That story of course is rubbish.
> > A prank, not more.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > Btw. it seems to be a boy...
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> > [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von
> > Meteorites USA
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 19:20
> > An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Girl? Boy?
> >
> > Hi Listees,
> >
> > The story has gone worldwide fast... The reports are merely repeating 
> > what the original report stated and from what I can see there is no 
> > verification...
> >
> > Skeptical? Is anyone else researching this? Maybe one of our German 
> > friends on-list might lend a hand and call the local paper there that 
> > first broke the story and see if they can get an interview with the boy 
> > to help confirm or verify what actually happened?
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo News UK:
> >
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090612/tod-boy-hit-by-meteorite-travelling-at-3
> > -870a197.html
> >
> > Space.com:
> > http://www.space.com/news/090612-boy-hit-by-meteorite.html
> >
> > FoxNews.com
> > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525992,00.html
> >
> >
> > SkyNews.com
> >
> http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Boy-Hit-On-Arm-By-White-Hot-Mete
> >
> orite-From-Outer-Space-Travelling-At-30000mph/Article/200906215302251?lpos=W
> >
> orld_News_First_Strange_News__Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15302251_
> > Boy_Hit_On_Arm_By_White-Hot 
> >
> <http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Boy-Hit-On-Arm-By-White-Hot-Met
> >
> eorite-From-Outer-Space-Travelling-At-30000mph/Article/200906215302251?lpos=
> >
> World_News_First_Strange_News__Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15302251
> > _Boy_Hit_On_Arm_By_White-Hot>
> >
> > Daily Telegraph: Australia
> >
> http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25625253-5012895,00.html
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > Has there been confirmation yet? If... And this is a BIG IF. If this is 
> > a real story and th boy really did get hit with a meteorite there could 
> > be more meteorite on th ground. This would be a very famous fall to 
> > recover if it turns out to be verifiable!
> >
> > Can anyone confirm?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Eric Wichman
> > Meteorites USA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Meteorites USA wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> This just in...
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Approximately 3,000 meteorites hit the Earth’s surface daily.
> >>
> >> SOURCE: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090611-19857.html
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> 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 
> >   
> >> --------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> 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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