XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: x@x.net   
      
   On 7/23/25 13:03, chine.bleu wrote:   
   > x wrote:   
   >>> the Truth is...in the history of man..never has a person ever been hit   
   >>> killed by an asteroid.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> NEVER.   
   >>   
   >> I think that you are not an AI programmed to change the subject   
   >> at this point.  Anyway there was a short article in Sky and   
   >> Telescope about 20 or so years ago about a boy in Africa who was   
   >> struck by a meteorite at the time who lived after being struck   
   >> by it.  I am not going to bother to try to dig it up for you.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Asteroid hits are extremely rare. I doubt we have been around long   
   > enough. Meteors hit every year making a bad interaction much more   
   > probable. So let us confuse everything because we are too far gone for   
   > rational exchange.   
      
   When asteroids or comets fall to the Earth, they fragment into a   
   lot of pieces.  They also have regular meteor showers each year   
   as a byproduct of past comets.   
      
   I am not sure if I also read another article some while back   
   about how a small number of car dents happen because of meteorites.   
      
   My guess is that they found the meteorite fragments, and then compared   
   them with times of meteor showers.  I am thinking the boy in Africa   
   was indirectly struck.  In other words, the meteorite hit a tree and   
   then hit the boy.  I am thinking that either the boy was not seriously   
   injured or not injured at all.  That was a while back.  I would guess   
   that the boy is a young adult by now.  I do not remember which African   
   country that was.   
      
      
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