ON 30 November 1954, 34-year-old Ann Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama, was taking an afternoon nap on her living-room sofa when a 4-kilogram meteorite smashed through her ceiling, bounced off her radio and struck her on the left hip. The grapefruit-sized swelling it left eventually healed, but Hodges was left traumatised. Ironically, her home was opposite the Comet Drive-in Theater, decorated with a neon sign showing a piece of cosmic rubble streaking through space.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Life is always more improbable than we can imagine
From Marcus Chown's review of The Cosmic Connection: How Astronomical Events Impact Life on Earth, in the December 6th, 2008 edition of New Scientist.
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