{"id":1681,"date":"2009-06-12T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/the-meteorite-bejeezus\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:52:34","slug":"the-meteorite-bejeezus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/12\/the-meteorite-bejeezus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meteorite Bejeezus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/090612-boy-hit-by-meteorite.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Space.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"7\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; line-height: 33px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: #1b4872; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px\">Boy Hit by Meteorite\u00a0<\/strong><br style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px\" \/><font style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px\" color=\"#333333\" size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px\">By SPACE.com Staff<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse\">A 14-year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite that scared the bejeezus out of him and left a scar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mperfectdesign.com\/files\/gimgs\/10_logobejeezus.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>&#8220;When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road,&#8221; Gerrit Blank said in a newspaper account. Astronomers have analyzed the object and conclude it was indeed a natural object from space,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/scienceandtechnology\/science\/space\/5511619\/14-year-old-hit-by-30000-mph-space-meteorite.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px\">The Telegraph reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse\">Most meteors vaporize in the atmosphere, creating &#8220;shooting stars,&#8221; and never reach the ground. The few that do are typically made mostly of metals. Stony space rocks, even if they are big as a car, will usually\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/asteroid_breakup_030716.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px\">break apart or explode<\/a>\u00a0as they crash through the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse\">But human strikes are rare. There are no known instances of humans being killed by space rocks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; line-height: normal; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/090612-boy-hit-by-meteorite.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at Space.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Space.com Boy Hit by Meteorite\u00a0By SPACE.com Staff A 14-year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite that scared the bejeezus out of him and left a scar. &#8220;When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road,&#8221; Gerrit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}