Showing posts with label Ann Hodges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ann Hodges. Show all posts

01 December 2009

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News- 1 DEC09

Daily TWiP – Ann Hodges becomes first person hit by a meteorite today in 1954
Nashua Telegraph
Hodges was the first documented individual to be hit by a meteorite and the fragment that hit her was subsequently named the Hodges Meteorite. ...

What's in the Dec. night sky other than reindeer?
Splash
The Geminid Meteor shower peaks on the morning of Dec. 14, so the waning crescent moon will interfere little with the approximately a meteor a minute fall ...

Meteorite study revives life-on-Mars debate
msnbc.com
By Irene Klotz New analysis of a 13000-year-old Mars meteorite, retrieved from Antarctica, has rekindled the debate about whether the ancient rock holds ...

New Study Adds to finding of Ancient Life Signs In Mars Meteorite
Space Ref (press release)
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Meteorite hunters find 13 space rocks in Grimsby
St. Catharines Standard
Meteorite hunters now have a baker's dozen of space rocks that rained down on Grimsby two months ago. But the scientist leading the University of Western ...

30 November 2009

Sylacauga, Alabama Meteorite Strikes Woman 55 years ago- other News 30NOV09

On this day in history

Chicago Tribune
In 1954 Elizabeth Hodges of Sylacauga, Ala., was slightly injured when an 8 1/2 -pound meteorite crashed through the roof of her house. ...


Der erste belegte Unfall mit einem Meteoriten

WELT ONLINE - Berlin,Germany
Trotz dieses Meteoritenfalls wird die Wahrscheinlichkeit, von einem Meteoriten getroffen oder verletzt zu werden, zumeist als äußerst niedrig eingestuft. ...

Sekrety meteorytu z Marsa

Polskie Radio - Warszawa,Mazowieckie,Poland
W 1996 roku wielką międzynarodową dyskusję spowodowała meteoryt ALH 84001 – najprawdopodobnie najlepiej zbadany fragment skały w historii. ...

Remembering a first
The Daily Home Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:48 PM PST
Fifty-five years ago, on Nov. 30, 1954, the first and only meteorite to strike a human hit Ann Hodges while she was taking a nap on her couch in her home in Oak Grove, just outside Sylacauga.

Encyclopedia of Alabama paints state story

al.com
The Hodges meteorite strike. An 8.5-pound meteorite crashed into the Sylacauga home of Ann Hodges on Nov. 30, 1954, hitting her hip as she napped on her ...

Custody battle brews over Rywanda Plainview meteorite

NEWS.com.au
A BITTER ownership battle has broken out over the discovery of Queensland's second biggest ever stony meteorite. Tom King, 53, was caretaker at Rywanda ...


Meteor row headed to court

ABC Online
It weighs 25 kilograms and is believed to be the state's second largest stony meteorite. It was removed from alongside a fence on a grazing property about ...

Special to The Washington Post

Washington Post
The International Meteor Organization (http://www.imo.net) says this year's Geminid meteors might be worth watching. It peaks on the post-midnight morning ...

Mercury is point of celestial triangle

Akron Beacon Journal
13 into the morning of the 14th, the Geminid meteor shower peaks. This shower is fairly reliable, producing up to 100 meteors an hour. ...


Life on Mars

Examiner.com
The rock in question is an achondrite meteor fragment which is believed to have been blasted off the Martian surface over a billion years ago. ...