Posted on 8/29/2002


The odds against being hit by a meteorite are billions to one - but a teenager in North Yorkshire may have had one land on her foot.

Siobhan Cowton, 14, was getting into the family car outside her Northallerton home at 1030 BST on Thursday when a stone fell on her from the sky.

Noticing it was "quite hot", she showed it to her father Niel.

The family now plan to have the stone analysed by scientists at Durham University.

"I saw it fall from above roof height," Siobhan told BBC News Online.

"It looked very unusual, with a bubbled surface and tiny indentations like volcanic lava.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2218755.stm