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Monday, 14 September 2009

Pyramid / Meteorite Coin - A 2012 Collectible?

Imagine living in a post-2012 apocalyptic world, due to our planet colliding with an asteroid...

Now, imagine showing your children this, to help explain what happened:



Not only does it show the orbits of the planets, and not only does it have genuine meteorite fragments embedded in the center, but it also depicts Egyptian and Mayan pyramids, and an Easter Island statue!

Great gift idea (hint to Mrs Bast), buy it from the Aussie Mint for $155:
http://mintissue.ramint.gov.au/mintissue/product.asp?code=801373

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Monday, 15 June 2009

German Schoolboy Hit By Meteorite & Lives!



The size of a pea, by the time it reached him, it still managed to leave a 5cm scar on the hand of Gerrit Blank, and a 30cm-wide crater in the pavement.

While this is the sort of "happy story" that you sometimes get at the end of news bulletins, it is only so due to the fact he lived, and the rarity of the situation. If a town/city is ever struck my a large meteorite, it will be a tragedy.

In recorded history he seems to be the person who has come off best from such a cosmic collision. According to Wikipedia:
The only other human confirmed to be struck and injured by a meteor was 31 year old Ann Hodges, of Sylacauga, Alabama. She was struck while asleep in bed on November 30, 1954, after the meteorite punched through the roof of her home, smashed a wooden cabinet, and then bounced off the floor to struck her in the hand and hip. The meteorite, which weighed about eight and a half pounds, caused extensive bruising.


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