[meteorite-list] __The_True_Story_of_Ann_Ho_dges:_H istory’s_Only_Meteorite_Victim

[Shawn Alan]

Hello Listers

Michael Farmer stated this...


Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:47:23 -0800 

 None, not a gram.

Michael Farmer

Hes referring to the first stone that hit Mrs Hodges.




Shawn Alan
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re:_[meteorite-list]_The_True_Story_of_Ann_Ho_dges:_H
> istory’s_Only_Meteorite_Victim
> From: Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
> Date: Sun, January 18, 2015 3:46 pm
> To: Shawn Alan <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>
> Cc: Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net>, Meteorite Central
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> 
> 
> None, not a gram.
> 
> Michael Farmer
> 
> > On Jan 18, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Frank and Listers
> > 
> > And its the second stone that was donated to the Smithsonian that is on
> > the meteorite market from time to time. I wonder how much of the first
> > stone that hit Mrs. Hodges is available to collectors? 
> > 
> > Shawn Alan
> > IMCA 1633 
> > ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
> > Website http://meteoritefalls.com 
> > 
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The True Story of Ann Ho dges: History’s
> >> Only Meteorite Victim
> >> From: Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net>
> >> Date: Sun, January 18, 2015 11:37 am
> >> To: Shawn Alan <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>,  Meteorite Central
> >> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hello all, 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The article isn't clear where the stones are.  The meteorite that hit Mrs. Hodges is in the Alabama Museum of Natural History.  A second stone (3.75 kg) was purchased by Stuart Perry and donated to the Smithsonian.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> 
> >> Frank
> >> 
> >> On Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:23 PM, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hello Listers
> >> 
> >> I wish I was a victim from a meteorite Lunar fall :)
> >> 
> >> Enjoy the TRUe STORy
> >> 
> >> Shawn Alan
> >> IMCA 1633 
> >> ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
> >> Website http://meteoritefalls.com 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The True Story of Ann Hodges: History’s Only Meteorite Victim
> >> January 16, 2015 
> >> By First to Know
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Getting hit by a falling meteor is far more uncommon than getting struck
> >> by lighting. How uncommon you might ask?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> There is only one confirmed person in history to have ever been hit by
> >> one. And she had the evidence to prove it.
> >> 
> >> Back in November 1954, Ann Hodges was taking a nap in her Sylacauga,
> >> Alabama, home when a rock about 12 inches in circumference came crashing
> >> through the ceiling. The meteorite then collided with her thigh, leaving
> >> behind a large, conspicuous bruise. Thankfully, it didn’t smash into
> >> her head, or the scene would have been much more gruesome.
> >> 
> >> When word got around about the meteor, the entire town flocked to her
> >> home. There were so many people curious to see what happened that she
> >> became extremely nervous and had to be taken to the hospital. Because
> >> she was a simple country woman, she wasn’t used to all the attention.
> >> It made her frenzied.
> >> 
> >> The incident didn’t end there.
> >> 
> >> Despite a government geologist confirming that the object was, in fact,
> >> a meteorite, police confiscated it and requested the Air Force’s
> >> verification. Many people in the tiny town thought the smoke trails in
> >> the sky and loud explosion meant a plane had crashed, while others,
> >> paranoid by the Cold War, blamed the Soviets. The object needed some
> >> clearing up.
> >> 
> >> Once verified, the only other thing left to do was figure out who the
> >> rock belonged to. Of course, Hodges believed it was rightfully hers to
> >> keep.
> >> 
> >> “I feel like the meteorite is mine,” she said, according to the
> >> Alabama Museum of Natural History. “I think God intended it for me.
> >> After all, it hit me!”
> >> 
> >> But, as luck would have it, she wasn’t the only person wanting to
> >> stake a claim for the space rock. Her landlady, Birdie Guy, wanted to
> >> keep it for herself.
> >> 
> >> Guy found a lawyer and sued Hodges, alleging that it was hers because it
> >> landed on her property. Although the law was leaning in her favor, the
> >> community wasn’t too happy about that verdict. So, in exchange for
> >> $500, they settled out of court.
> >> 
> >> Soon after, the woman and her husband, Eugene, received an offer from
> >> the Smithsonian for the rock, though they turned it down — hoping to
> >> score a better offer. An offer they’d never get.
> >> 
> >> No one approached them to purchase the controversial entity. In 1956,
> >> the Hodges wound up donating it to the museum. If you’re interested in
> >> checking it out, it’s still on display.
> >> 
> >> The entire story is just a little heartbreaking, especially when you
> >> consider that Ann suffered a nervous breakdown from the meteorite
> >> hysterics.
> >> 
> >> According to the museum, “she never did recover” from the frenzy
> >> that followed that fateful day.
> >> 
> >> The couple later separated, and, in 1972, she went on to die of kidney
> >> failure in a nursing home.
> >> 
> >> She “wasn’t a person who sought out the limelight. The Hodges were
> >> just simple country people, and I really think that all the attention
> >> was her downfall,” explained museum director Randy Mecredy.
> >> 
> >> What makes this woman’s story so rare is that meteorites typically
> >> fall into the ocean or land somewhere desolate (not on top of a woman
> >> napping on her couch), according to Michael Reynolds, a Florida State
> >> College astronomer.
> >> 
> >> “Think of how many people have lived throughout human history,”
> >> Reynolds said. “You have a better chance of getting hit by a tornado
> >> and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the same time.”
> >> 
> >> In the photo above, Moody Jacobs reveals her bruise from the incident.
> >> 
> >> Source:
> >> http://firsttoknow.com/true-story-ann-hodges-historys-meteorite-victim/
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