In all of history, there is only one documented case of a meteorite actually hitting a person. That person was Ann Hodges, a resident of Sylacauga in the American state of Alabama. On the afternoon of November 30, 1954, Ann was napping on her couch when a softball-sized hunk of black rock broke through the ceiling and hit her in the side. The 3.5-kilo rock was still warm and it left a huge oval-shaped bruise.
Though 30 to 170 meteorites weighing over 10 grams hit Earth every day, they usually fall into the ocean or in vast, remote, largely uninhabited places.
Once it was officially determined to be a meteorite, it was given to the Hodges. Their landlady claimed it was here as it had hit her house! The Hodges paid her $500 for the rock, hoping to sell it for a large sum elsewhere. No one showed any interest and eventually they donated the meteorite to the Alabama natural history museum.
The stress caused Ann Hodges to suffer a nervous breakdown. She died a few years later at the age of 52.
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