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Ann Elizabeth Hodges became the only confirmed person in history to be struck by a meteorite when a nine-pound space rock crashed through her Alabama home in 1954. This episode digs into the impact, the injury, the legal fight over the meteorite, and why the “Sylacauga meteorite incident” remains one of the most famous celestial close calls ever recorded.
By datepiepodAnn Elizabeth Hodges became the only confirmed person in history to be struck by a meteorite when a nine-pound space rock crashed through her Alabama home in 1954. This episode digs into the impact, the injury, the legal fight over the meteorite, and why the “Sylacauga meteorite incident” remains one of the most famous celestial close calls ever recorded.