Boy is hit by meteorite
 

14 year old boy is hit by meteorite and survives - you don't see this kind of thing every day lol

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...meteorite.html

I think his parents should buy a lottery ticket... or two.

...and here's a picture of his hand and the meteorite

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...68_468x286.jpg

:thumbsup wow lucky

wtf??? something can bounce off a hand yet still cause a foot-wide crater??? Why didn't it just go through his hand?

and i thought ive had bad days :1orglaugh

haha... what the fuck is wrong with you??

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I think someone in a tree with a sling shot is fucking with him.

There are quite a few holes in this article. The speed of the object for one thing. It may have been traveling at that speed at one time but once it hit our atmosphere it would begin to heat up, break apart and most significantly... SLOW DOWN. There is only a small window of time in which the atmosphere has time to work it's magic on incoming objects. Whatever makes it through enjoys an introduction to the physics of earth.

The size of that object is the same as it was once the atmosphere was done with it. At that point that tiny object began to slow down. Remember it is the size of a pea now. It most likely slowed down to terminal velocity or a close approximation. REMEMBER... this is now the size of a pea. Now in order for it to break the sound barrier, which the article claims, it would have to be moving at rate much faster than its expected terminal velocity.

If it HAD been traveling at those speeds... 1. The object would have needed to be much larger and 2. The boy would be dead.

The story is completely ludicrous.

Im glad you said it, because to be honest, the complete story is a bit.. well, to hard to believe?

I always look both ways before I cross a field

You think the story is fake ? If the Telegraph reports about it, then it's a legitimate question... :2 cents: btw, this was on yahoo news and all other news websites...

are you guys like retarded twins joined at the hip or what? your turn to post now?

the picture is the "meteor" in his hand... not a picture of the hole in the ground it "caused" ... and its a sad state of affairs when someone has to help someone up, help them put their helmet back on, tie the pillows back around their waist and explain something so obvious. if you were retarded and conjoined twins, we could bend the rules possibly let it go as one incredibly dumb response instead of two.

Scientists studied the rock and confirmed it was from space... so unless the kid who shot rocks at him just happened to get lucky and grab a rock that came from space... or it's a true story.

"A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground."

No way that thing could have hit his hand then bounced off and caused a foot wide crater. If it had that much force it would have gone right through his hand. Perhaps it hit the ground and a piece of the pavement came up and hit his hand. Much more believable.

The last paragraph from that piece is actually the freakiest:

"The only other known example of a human being surviving a meteor strike happened in Alabama, USA, in November 1954 when a grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a house, bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman."

:D

Of course it is for the very reasons I listed above.

1. It COULD NOT be traveling at 30,000 mph in earths atmosphere. If it had it would have punched a much larger hole in the ground and that twit would have been vaporized with a good portion of his surroundings. An object the size of a pea would not be able to maintain its size at those speeds in our atmosphere.

2. If it had been going fast enough to break the sound barrier like the article claims, it too would have created a larger impact point than a mere foot in diameter. And that twits arm or at the very least a good portion of his hand would be gone.


BTW, I am not saying it didn't happen or that the object is not a meteorite. I am saying based on the laws of physics it DID NOT happen the way that article or that kid claims it did.

That article is believable as that object has the proper size and mass to create the destruction it did. But notice that the pea had enough energy to create a 12" diameter crater, while the grapefruit-sized object merely "crashed through the roof of a house, bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman."

I would totally believe the article if the version depicted above would have been written but a meteor BOUNCING of a kid's hand and then forming a foot-wide crater ?? ... that writer/news paper editor must have some big-shameless-balls to write something that ludicrous

no shit.. What are you trying to argue here? what the fuck are you even talking about? Try to be clear and to the point this time and please, save yourself some time trying to impress who the fuck you are trying so hard to impress...

A bee sting must hurt more...

fuck, I think I get it... you think borked's claim of a "foot wide crater" was an assumption based on the photo posted... and not taken from the article itself... ?

"A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground."

It couldn't be...

Clearly, the worn out/rough spot on the ground has nothing to do with the small meteorite that hit the boy.

Hard to believe it didn't blow through his hand..amazing

noooway that his hand bounced something off of it that caused anything going fast enough to put a hole in the ground

imagine a bullet, could this kid bounce a bullet off his hand? now imagine a bullet going way way way way way faster and smaller than a bullet even, how the fuck wouldn't it go through? kid is lying

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh bwahahahahaha

very cool :)

He is so lucky to survive

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I have to admit, the whole "bounced off his hand then made a big hole in the ground" thing does sound pretty ridiculous to me. The kid must have incredibly strong hands!! Seems to me it's a genuine story but they've tried way too hard to make it sound more dramatic than it actually was.

you don't need a physics degree and be required to calculate the velocity of a pea sized rock and the energy required to create a 1 foot in diameter hole in the ground to understand that if it did in fact "hit him" it obviously only grazed his skin.... since it would clearly not be possible to redirect a bullet sized object with that sort of energy with your skin, over a distance of a couple feet.

"bouncing off" [his hand] was clearly a poor choice in phrasing by the writer.

any other questions?

i'll be here all day for your convenience, ready to help you understand all the common sense mysteries of the world.

Science pea brains, this is entirely plausible
 

I have no idea if this is a true story or a flight of fancy but just from looking at the scar on the kids hand it's instantly apparent that it's very plausible that it did indeed graze him prior to making a small impact crater. Any amateur astronomy buff knows that for a pebble size space rock to make it to the surface of the earth it would have been shedding mass all the way down, both by burn off and crack up and separation... meaning that the pea sized particle would have been marble sized just seconds earlier, and baseball sized just seconds before that. The meteor as descibed by the boy was a bright ball of light which indicates that it was indeed burning off it's mass at a rapid rate, which also indicates that the meteor would have had a sphere of hot gas and vapor surrounding it as well as a long tail of red hot sand size particle ejection. The meteorite would not have the characteristics of a bullet, but rather a sphere of force far wider than the final pebble..Closer to a foot in diameter. It's entirely possible that this sphere of hot gas and red hot sand ejection, or the tail, did graze the kid before striking the earth, of course this incidental contact made no change in the meteors trajectory, the term "bounced off" is just bad verbage used by the reporter which is what threw you guys off... All said I wouldn't be suprised if the story turned out to be bullshit anyway.

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common, what were you trying to explain with this one? "the picture is the "meteor" in his hand... not a picture of the hole in the ground it "caused"

Not only it didn't bounce of him, but the meteorite itself didn't touch him.. All he has is a small burn mark from the heat it produced... and the impact on the ground then knocked him flying.. This is a poorly written article and to question it's validity or accuracy by asking "how could it bounce off his hand, produce a crater in the ground and only leave a burn mark?" is in my opinion legitimate... 6 laughing smileys? common man.. get over yourself..

The resulting bit of rock does appear to have a burned shell on the outside. It's dark and also magnetic they say, so it seems plausible.

looks like he found my gun rounds I shot off in the air the other day...
lol

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my point was exactly that. that an object traveling at 300-1000 feet per second obviously couldn't "bounce" off someones hand. any one with an IQ over 10 should be about to do that little piece of common sense math. asking how that could happen only makes great sense if you happen to be an inquisitive 9 year old child.

Your the best Mikey! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Ok sure man...

What were you trying to explain with this one?

Don't bother with him... he doesn't know what The Telegraph is, and he never read the article. It's quite clear he thought the whole thing was fake. simply by putting "meteor" in quotes, showed he didn't believe it.

Now he's trying to save face.... transparent. Which is why I never bothered to reply to him in the first place. The guy would argue that black is white given the chance. :2 cents:

How can this kind of thing be possible?

no... the word "meteor" implies a body of mass (predominately metal), entering the earths atmosphere and making it to the ground which requires a certain mass and certain velocity... and obviously couldn't "bounce" off someones hand while having enough energy to create a "one foot crater" in the ground.

i cant take a metal jacketed "pea sized" 9mm bullet and fire it into the ground at 500-600 feet per second and its obviously not going have the energy required to make a "one foot crater". its not exactly advanced physics.

what i didn't believe is how someone could be honestly curious how a piece of metal ore traveling at upwards of 2000 feet per second is going to "bounce" off a human hand

Who gives a fuck, jesus christ, first GFY was doctors, then millionaires, then google experts, now we're all scientists?

Will he grow up to be Meteorman????

I hope so :upsidedow

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It was probably traveling at 30,000mph and breaking the sound barrrier when it hit the atmosphere. It had to have slowed down considerably after that and then just glanced off his hand. A penny traveling at terminal velocity does not have enough mass to kill anyone. An ultra dense meteor might be moving a bit faster though.