German boy sees light, feels burn as pea sized meteorite bounces off his hand, gets knocked down, stands up and sees foot wide crater next to him… he couldn’t hear so well for awhile but lives to tell about it….
Update: It may be a hoax… the Bad Astronomy blog argues both ways and some of the comments are informative too.
Absolutely ridiculous!
The gullible media ate this one up, worldwide!
Anyone with simple physics or the most basic meteoritics knowledge would spot this story as a fraud.
I wonder how many outlets will publish that, when it is realised?
Thanks for the heads up on this.
I did more research and it sounds like it could be a hoax, but it also could have happened:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/
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