Saturday, December 2, 2006

rest of story A star fell on Sylacauga 1954

Reading about meteors and meteorites when I was younger, I knew about this story as it was one of the only ones if not the only one that at that time about a human being being struck by a meteorite. But I did not know the rest of the story.
Read below about the interesting rest of the story
Dr.Eric
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Picture of The late Dr. Moody Jacobs in 1994 with a copy of the Dec. 13, 1954, issue of Life magazine, which featured a story about the Sylacauga meteorite. In the black-and-white photo on the table, Jacobs points to the large bruise on Ann Hodges' left hip after it was struck by the rock.

A star fell on Sylacauga
'54 meteorite struck home,
woman, changed lives

By M.J. Ellington
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061130/meteorite.shtml

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