{"id":603,"date":"2010-08-15T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T06:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=603"},"modified":"2010-08-14T22:05:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T12:05:35","slug":"ohio-meteorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/08\/ohio-meteorite-603.html","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Man Also Hit by Meteorite?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following on from the man watching the cricket last week, if this in in fact a meteorite, then perhaps, just perhaps, we are seeing a rise in such phenomena…<\/p>\n

An Ohio man claims he was hit in the shoulder by a chunk of meteorite falling from the sky Sunday night.
\n“I didn’t know what it was,” Pat Foraker said. “I thought somebody was playing a prank on me and threw something at me.”<\/p>\n

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“Hit me right here, I heard it,” he said. “It was like a whistling noise. It thumped my shoulder and landed in the swimming pool.”
\nThe rock sliced the skin on Foraker’s shoulder, and was still warm when he plucked it out of the pool.
\nGeologists at Ohio State University will examine the rock, but believe it’s likely a meteorite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite what the \tnews report<\/a> says, if you watch the video the University experts do not think it is a meteorite. Perhaps because they think a meteorite would cause more harm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from the man watching the cricket last week, if this in in fact a meteorite, then perhaps, just perhaps, we are seeing a rise in such phenomena…
\nAn Ohio man claims he was hit in the shoulder by a chunk of meteorite falling from the sky Sunday night.
\n“I didn’t know what it was,” Pat Foraker said. “I thought somebody was playing a prank on me and threw something at me.”<\/p>\n

“Hit me right here, I heard it,” he said. “It was like a whistling noise. It thumped my shoulder and landed in the swimming pool.”
\nThe rock sliced the skin on Foraker’s shoulder, and was still warm when he plucked it out of the pool.
\nGeologists at Ohio State University will examine the rock, but believe it’s likely a meteorite.
\nDespite what the \tnews report says, if you watch the video the University experts do not think it is a meteorite. Perhaps because …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meteorite","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}