That's got to hurt - Well for Gerrit Blank those odds were pretty high. Talk about oddities.
A 14-year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite that scared the bejeezus out of him and left a scar.
"When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road," Gerrit Blank said in a newspaper account. Astronomers have analyzed the object and conclude it was indeed a natural object from space,
If you're wondering what the odds really are,The Harvard Crimson says the odds of being struck by a meteorite during this century are three in one hundred.
I guess that makes Gerrit one down and two to go.
