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Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges (also known as Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Hewlett Hodges, and Mrs. Huelitt Hodges; [1] February 2, 1920 – September 10, 1972) was an American woman known for being the first documented individual not only to be struck by a meteorite, but also to live through the encounter.
In 1992, a small meteorite fragment (3g) hit a young Ugandan boy in Mbale; [13] it had been slowed by a tree and caused no injury. On the night of October 3, 2021, a meteorite fell through the roof of a house in Golden, British Columbia , landing on a sleeping woman's pillow, but without harming her.
Soon, the news focuses on an asteroid which is predicted to hit the Moon. People are excited about the opportunity to witness the event, including Miranda and her family. However, the asteroid is denser than scientists expected, and soon after the impact, it becomes clear that it has pushed the Moon closer to Earth, intensifying the tidal ...
An asteroid streaked past northern Siberia in the middle of the night Tuesday before burning up in Earth's atmosphere, lighting up the skies with a blinding flash, dramatic video shows.
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. The world was given only seven hours warning that it was being approached by ...
Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released by Touchstone Pictures.The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to destroy a gigantic asteroid, which is the size of Texas, on a collision course with Earth.
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a swarm of 37 boulders around the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA’s DART mission intentionally hit.