Gerrit Blank, a 14-year-old boy from Essen, Germany, survived after being hit by a meteorite hurtling at 30,000mph.

Blank was reportedly walking to school when he saw a “ball of light” flying towards him, when it hit his hand. The red-hot, pea-sized meteorite left a 3-inch long wound, and a foot-wide crater on the ground where it crashed after it bounced off Blank’s hand.

“When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road,” Blank explained.

The chances of surviving after getting hit by a meteorite are estimated to be one-in-a-million. The only recorded event such as this before was in November 1954, when a grapefruit-sized rock crashed through a roof, rebounded on some furniture, and landed on a sleeping woman in Alabama, USA.

Chemical tests on the meteorite have proven that it is, indeed, from space. The Earth is regularly bombarded by meteorites, but since most of these evaporate in the atmosphere due to frictional heat, only rarely does an actual meteorite make it to ground level. Of these, about six out of every seven such rocks fall into Earth’s waters.

via telegraph.co.uk

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