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In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
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Sylacauga, Alabama
City in Alabama, United States
Sylacauga is a city in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,578.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sylacauga (meteorite)
Meteorite that fell in 1954 in Alabama
The Sylacauga meteorite fell on November 30, 1954, at 12:46 p.m. local time in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga, in the United States. It is also commonly called the Hodges meteorite because a fragment of it struck Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges (1920–1972).Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Western Hemisphere
Half of Earth west of the Prime Meridian
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Species of hominid in the genus Homo
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