Why you (probably) don’t need to worry about a meteorite hitting you

A French woman reportedly was struck by a space rock — but you’re probably safe. The resident of Schirmeck, a village in northeastern France, was sitting outside in the middle of a conversation, when she felt something slam into her ribs. The leading theory is that the rock, small in size, was a meteorite.

Though the sky occasionally opens wide and delivers a rocky visitor from space, getting personally struck by a harmful meteorite is rare.

But it has happened before. In 1954, a 34-year old woman named Ann Hodges was napping in her Alabama home when a 9-lb space rock came through her ceiling, bounced off her radio, and bruised her leg. In 1992, a young boy in Uganda was hit by a “small specimen” on the head. FULL STORY from Inverse