BillJun 12th, 2009 - 18:15:39

Everything in this story is fraudulent.

Meteorites are NOT blazing white hot when they land, but actually cold as their internal space temperatures are around -250F. Real fresh falls are either mildly warm or still cold enough to have frost.

A true meteorite goes dark about 35 miles high when its speed slows subsonic. This would have been many miles from the point of impact. There would have been 10,000s of people reporting the event, not just him. The youth could not have seen the 'onrushing lump of matter' rushing towards him as a blazing stone in order to react to it. Pea sized meteors will slow to a terminal velocity of about 60-80 mph the same as dropping it from a skyscraper, not 30,000 mph.

The stone would have stung his hand like a pellet gun, but not left a scar. It would not be possible to feel the 'pain in my hand' before it hit the ground. Stones this small NEVER make craters, not even one foot in length in the road.

The sonic boom would have been heard by the boy long before the slowed meteorite would have reached him, not after.

This statement is an impossible scenario; “At first I just saw a large ball of light and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand,” explained the teenager after his lucky escape, “Then a split second after that, there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder.”

A hit hand would not knock him off his feet, nor would a sonic boom originating from 35 miles away (where the stone would become sub sonic) leave 'his ears ringing for several hours'.

The only thing true is that the boy has a pea sized meteorite and a scratch on his hand.

The whole account is fictional.

Bill

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