Sylacauga (meteorite)

[2] The grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a farm house, bounced off a large wooden console radio, and hit Hodges while she napped on a couch.

[4] The meteor made a fireball visible from three American states as it streaked through the atmosphere, even though it fell early in the afternoon.

[10] The earliest claim of a person being hit by a meteorite comes from 1677 in a manuscript published at Tortona, Italy, which tells of a Milanese friar who was killed by one, although its veracity is unknown.

[12] In 1992, a small meteorite fragment (3g) hit a young Ugandan boy in Mbale;[13] it had been slowed by a tree and caused no injury.

On the night of October 3, 2021, a meteorite fell through the roof of a house in Golden, British Columbia, landing on a sleeping woman's pillow, but without harming her.

A slice of the meteorite, the National Museum of Natural History , the Smithsonian, DC