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June 13, 2009
His lucky star
Schoolboy survives meteorite hit
A German schoolboy is thanking his lucky stars - after surviving being hit by a meteorite.Gerrit Blank, 14, was rushing to school when he saw a massive fireball heading straight towards him from the sky.
"At first I just saw a large ball of light, and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand," he explained. "Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder."
The white-hot meteorite hit the ground so hard it left a foot wide crater in the tarmac and a three-inch long scar on Gerrit's hand where it bounced off him.
Posted by joke du jour at June 13, 2009 07:13 AM
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