Comments on: Meteorite that crashed through roof of home in Georgia dated to beginning of solar system

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:52:20 +0000

Mark Sizer–

Hilarious! Almost spewed my hot beverage all over my keyboard!

On the upside, by all reports this shook her up quite a bit, so we can bill on F40.298, “other-specified phobia,” if we specify “meteorophobia.”

By: Mark Sizer

Mark Sizer — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:50:31 +0000

Huh. There doesn’t seem to be an ICD-10 code for “injured by meteor” (or meteroite).

E845.0 – Accident involving spacecraft injuring occupant of spacecraft
E928.0 – Prolonged stay in weightless environment
are there, but no “spacecraft crashing my on head”

Fortuitous or not, I’d prefer it didn’t happen to me (or my house or car).

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:58:35 +0000

Peekskill hit a car. There was a song about stars falling on Alabama. Wetumpka Alabama has a meteor crater larger than Arizona’s.

Some think a meteor from Encke’s comet started the Chicago fire.

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:47:04 +0000

“I’ve Got a Secret”
Ann Hodges, Alabama Woman Struck by Meteorite
https://youtu.be/JVyi1w4ULug
4:18

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:43:36 +0000

Blair–
Good stuff.

November 30, 1954, Sylacauga, Alabama.
The 5.54 kg Sylacauga Meteorite aka “Hodges Meteorite,” “… crashed through the roof of a farmhouse, bounced off a large wooden console radio, and hit 34-year-old Ann E. Hodges (1923-1972) while she napped on a couch.”
After an ownership dispute with her landlord, Miss Hodges acquired the meteorite and subsequently donated it to the Alabama Museum of Natural History at Tuscaloosa, where it is on permanent display.

https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/hodges-meteorite-strike-sylacauga-aerolite/

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:20:16 +0000

I had occasion to look into the Benld meteorite. The impact was heard, but the orientation of the garage prevented locating the rock, until later that day. Presumably, when the owner went to use the car.

There have been several meteorite home invasions. One at a medical clinic in Virginia ” . . . sounded like bookcases crashing down.”, and another in British Columbia where a rock landed in a bed vacated moments earlier. The Benld stone is at least the second to hit a car.

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:16:21 +0000

On display at the Chicago Field Museum, the “Benld Meteorite,” a 3.9 lb. specimen that fell on September 29, 1938.

Went through the roof of Edward McCain’s garage, in Benld, Illinois. — “Tore through the roof, seat, and floor of McCain’s Pontiac’s and rebounded off the muffler before bouncing back up into the springs of the seat.”

https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-benld-meteorite-an-ordinary-space-rock-that-slammed-into-a-car/