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A woman in France may have just become the second-ever known person to be hit by a falling space rock after a tiny meteorite fragment allegedly bounced off her roof and struck her in the chest, leaving her with minor bruises.
Initially, the woman thought that she had been hit by a flying animal like a bird or bat before she discovered a pebble-size rock at her feet. She took the rock, which weighs around 1.8 ounces , to Thierry Rebmann, a geosciences consultant and formerly a paleogeology researcher at the University of Basel, for examination.
However, some experts have questioned whether the rock is actually a meteorite, France Bleu Alsace reported, although none of these experts have been named and their reasons for doubting Rebmann's findings are unclear. The odds of being directly hit by a meteorite are astronomically slim.
In 2020, researchers in Turkey translated a series of old letters and came across accounts of a man being killed and another being paralyzed by falling space rocks in 1888, according to Universe Today. But this evidence remains inconclusive.
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