Think it’s Unlikely to Be Hit By a Meteorite While Sleeping?

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all.</p><p id="679f">But at some point, the rock decided to fall onto the Earth. It burnt through the Canadian skies and broke into a house through the roof of a bedroom, where a woman was sleeping. The woman suddenly jumped out of her bed, to find -totally astonished- the meteorite, around the size of an adult’s fist, near her pillow just a few centimeters from her head.</p><p id="ea0f">The chance of this happening is probably full of zeros before a 1. Yet by the same margin did she escape death.</p><div id="e8c6" class="link-block"> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/world/can

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ada/meteorite-bed.html"> <div> <div> <h2>Meteorite Crashes Through Ceiling and Lands on Woman's Bed</h2> <div><h3>After a fireball streaked through the Canadian sky, Ruth Hamilton, of British Columbia, found a 2.8-pound rock the size…</h3></div> <div><p>www.nytimes.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*bBJOLitqKo0lKvPP)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Well this just almost happened to a woman

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The rock flew thru space for millions of years, covering millions of kilometers throughout millions of cubic kilometers. There were for sure times during its voyage when Earth was just a pale blue dot, perhaps not even visible at all.

But at some point, the rock decided to fall onto the Earth. It burnt through the Canadian skies and broke into a house through the roof of a bedroom, where a woman was sleeping. The woman suddenly jumped out of her bed, to find -totally astonished- the meteorite, around the size of an adult’s fist, near her pillow just a few centimeters from her head.

The chance of this happening is probably full of zeros before a 1. Yet by the same margin did she escape death.

Think it’s Unlikely to Be Hit By A Meteorite While Sleeping?

Well this just almost happened to a woman

Meteorite Crashes Through Ceiling and Lands on Woman's Bed

After a fireball streaked through the Canadian sky, Ruth Hamilton, of British Columbia, found a 2.8-pound rock the size…