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[quote]Two cricket fans' enjoyment of a county cricket match was interrupted when a meteorite sailed towards the boundary ropes, hitting one man in the chest.
Jan Marszel, 51, and Richard Haynes, 52, were watching Sussex players Luke Wright and Monty Panesar bat when a black object soared towards them.
The rock, five inches in length and thought to be up to 4.5 billion years old, crashed into the ground and broke in two just in front of their seats square of the wicket.
Mr Marszel, an IT consultant, told the Daily Telegraph: “We were sitting at the boundary edge when all of a sudden, out of a blue sky, we saw this small dark object hurtling towards us.
“It landed five yards inside the boundary and split into two pieces.
“One piece bounced up and hit me in the chest and the other ended up against the boundary board.
“It came across at quite a speed - if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting."
Meteorite strikes are extremely rare, but Mr Haynes remains convinced the object that is now back at his home is indeed a lump of rock from outer space.
Mr Haynes, said: “We were quietly supping our pints, both looked up at the same time and saw a black object coming towards us - we didn’t know what it was.
“If it had come from the other direction we might have suspected someone had thrown it, but we saw it come in straight over the ground from quite a way out - it was definitely a meteorite.”
Dr Matthew Genge, a meteorite expert at Imperial College, London, said: “If this turns out to be a meteorite it’s very exciting and would be the first fall in the UK since 1992.
"Potentially it contains secrets as to the formation of our solar system."[/quote]
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Six!
What are the odds of that?
Oh what! It was going slow, that sucks, nothing to see here folks :saddowns:
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Thats a space peanut.
Thank god. Cricket sucks without meteors.
[QUOTE=Squarebob;23639872]Thats a space peanut.[/QUOTE]
They call them bowling bombs.
Whoa, imagine being hit in the chest by a bouncing meteor and live to tell the tale.
But that's seriously awesome, and it fell during the one of the most boring things known to mankind.
That rocks.
[QUOTE=MendozaMan;23640188]Whoa, imagine being hit in the chest by a bouncing meteor and live to tell the tale.
But that's seriously awesome, and it fell during the one of the most boring things known to mankind.[/QUOTE]
A person gets hit by a meteor every few years or so, so the odds actually state that there should be at least twenty meteor strikes per cricket match
How can you get hit in the chest with a meteorite and not die?
[QUOTE=mikadillio;23639898]They call them bowling bombs.[/QUOTE]
[b]Boeing bombs[/b].
Because they're dropped from Boeing passenger aircraft, supposedly.
[QUOTE=Squarebob;23639872]Thats a space peanut.[/QUOTE]
I think you mean walnut. But no, sadly it is not.
Cricket would be way more interesting if there was a meteorite every game
[quote=man]"It came across at quite a speed - if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting."[/quote]
Interesting? You'd be dead bitch. :v:
Yeah, because meteorites really travel at around 50 miles an hour.
Someone threw it at him.
[quote]It came across at quite a speed - if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting."[/quote]
Badass.
Thats one helluva punch line
"Hey baby. You know, I'm so badass I survived a meteorite impact to my chest."
[QUOTE=Xystus234;23641915]Yeah, because meteorites really travel at around 50 miles an hour.
Someone threw it at him.[/QUOTE]
Hit the ground, split into two pieces.
That kinda thing subtracts an awful lot of momentum.
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Thats just a big 'ol frozen chunk of poopy.
I wonder if you have a smaller chance of getting hit with a meteorite than winning the lottery jackpot.. That guy should start playing the lottery.
Why can't a small meteorite land in my garden so i can sell it to scientists.
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That REALLY looks like hashish.
Would have been far more interesting if it didn't loose energy in the burn up.
But oh well, glad he got of it okay, probably got a nice sum of money for the rock, too.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23645992]Would have been far more interesting if it didn't loose energy in the burn up.
But oh well, glad he got of it okay, probably got a nice sum of money for the rock, too.[/QUOTE]
According to the article, he's keeping the rock in his house.
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That's crazy, honestly what are the chances of that happening..?
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[QUOTE=PrusseLusken;23640024]Holy shit, what's the chance of this happening?[/QUOTE]
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I came into this thread expecting the meteorite to be huge.
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