Meteorites

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Somewhere between 7,500-4,000 years ago, a meteorite fragmented over Estonia's Saaremaa island. The meteorite hit with a force comparable to Hiroshima and left nine impact craters, including the 110-meter Kaali crater. Locals worshiped this hole as holy.

Holy holes!

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Man hit by six meteorites is being 'targeted by aliens'
A Bosnian man who claims he is being targeted by extraterrestrials after a series of meteorite strikes on his house has now been hit by a sixth space rock in the space of a few years.
20th July 2010

Radivoje Lajic first came to international attention in 2008, shortly after the fifth meteorite had crashed into the roof of his house in the northern village of Gornji Lajici. And now, within the past month, another rock has hit the roof of his house, in defiance of all the odds - making it six strikes since the plague of meteorites began in 2007.

Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the falling rocks he has handed over were meteorites. They are now trying to work out what exactly it is about his house that particularly attracts them. The strikes always happen when it is raining heavily, he says, never when there are clear skies.

Lajic has his own explanation, of course. After the fifth rock struck his house, he said: 'I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate.' 50-year-old Lajic has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house to protect it from the alien bombardment - which he funded by selling one of the meteorites to a university in the Netherlands. 'I have no doubt I am being targeted by aliens,' he adds. 'They are playing games with me. I don't know why they are doing this. When it rains I can't sleep for worrying about another strike.'

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Pesky aliens!

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I thought they were supposed to be intelligent, why are they throwing rocks at him?

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'Meteorite' crashes to earth during county cricket match, hitting spectator in the chest
26th July 2010

Two cricket fans have told of the moment one of them was struck by a piece of rock that fell from the sky as they watched a match. Jan Marszal, 51, and Richard Haynes, 52, were watching Middlesex play Sussex in a county championship match in Uxbridge when what's thought to be a meteorite hurtled towards them.

One piece struck Mr Marszal on the chest, while the other crashed into the boundary board. The pair, both members of Sussex Cricket Club, are convinced it was a piece of meteorite. If so, it's the first to be recorded in Britain for nearly 20 years.

Mr Haynes, who is retired and lives in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, said the pair had each taken a piece of the rock home. He said: 'It came flying towards the boundary, hurtling past the Middlesex fielder Dawid Malan and bounced in front of the boundary. It was travelling really fast. It was definitely not a stone thrown by a member of the crowd. It must have been part of a meteorite. We can't think of anything else it could have been. It is a rocky type of substance.'

Mr Marszel, 51, an IT consultant from Uckfield, East Sussex, said: '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.'

Meteorite expert Dr Matthew Genge, 42, of 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 the rock contains some of the secrets of the formation of our solar system.'

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Meteoracalypse