Event
In Sylacauga, Alabama, a four-kilogram piece of the Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman
30 Nov 1954 · 33.19° N, 86.29° W
What the records say
- When
- 30 Nov 1954
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 33.19° N, 86.29° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Sylacauga (meteorite).
Summary
In Sylacauga, Alabama, a four-kilogram piece of the Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person.
3 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “американка Энн Элизабет Ходжес была ранена осколком метеорита Силакога — это первый полностью задокументированный случай ранения человека внеземным объектом”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Oak Grove (Alabama) el meteorito Hodges (un trozo del meteorito Sylacauga) del tamaño de un pomelo pero de 3,8 kg golpea a la señora Anna Hodges (1920-1972)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page