A Newsome couple cheated death in a close encounter with a meteorite!

Chris Nolan and his wife Julie were relaxing on holiday in Lincolnshire when the rock plummeted to earth, crashing through their caravan window.
Mr Nolan, a psychiatric nurse at St Luke's Hospital, said when they found the meteorite it was still hot and reeked of sulphur.

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

Heh, it still amazes me no one's been killed by one yet. I think the worst so far is a guy who ended up with a pretty nice bruise on his chest from one piling in, but with the possible exception of Tunguska, nothing nasty yet.

Absolutely amazing.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

Doodler. I'm pretty sure a monk was killed in Italy..Cremona.. while walking with companions, when struck by a meteorite, though the exact source temporarily eludes me. I'll check. Pete.

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A third rate theory forbids
A second rate theory explains after the fact
A first rate theory predicts...A. Lomonosov

Hum,
I'm not sure on the accuracy of the reports but this website has an list of near and fatal impacts

Web link:

and

this

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

Interesting reading. Foolish to have forgotten Tunguska, but then I was thinking about direct hits when I posted. The only ones I had read about were non-lethal until now.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

Don't you think these close encounters with meteorites are wasted on non amateur astronomers? We would appeciate the experience so much more than anyone else. LOLOL