Ann Hodges

Ann Elizabeth Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama is the only person of record to have been hit by a meteorite. On November 30, 1954, she was napping on her living room couch when a space rock weighing approximately 4 kg (9 lbs.) crashed through the roof of her house. It bounced off her large console radio, which it destroyed, and struck her on the arm and hip. She suffered a bad bruise but escaped permanent injury.

She donated the sulfide meteorite to the Alabama Museum of Natural History at the University of Alabama, where it is on display.

External links

• University of Alabama News: 50th Anniversary of Hodges Meteorite
• Alabama Museum of Natural History: Hodges Meteorite
• The Birmingham News: A star really did fall on Alabama
• Sylacauga Chamber of Commerce news