5 lacing meteor crush in history

Source of danger threatening the Earth so much, including a meteor. At any time, a rock-speed 32 187 km / h could fall from the sky. This meteor hit the craziest in history.

Such stones can hit the roof of the house or even your head. Here's a meteorite that appeared in modern times that have hit the man, makes man sick or just destroy their cars.

1. Peekskill fireball

On October 9, 1992, a giant fireball into the sky at night and across the East Coast, United States (US). Fireball was first seen in West Virginia. The fragments of this fire ball eventually fell in Peekskill, New York. Then, the fireball was also named Peekskill. One fraction of this fireball destroys a car. Due to the narrowness of the angle fireball falls to Earth (fireball is burned in the atmosphere for 40 full seconds), this meteorite can be seen thousands of people and there are 16 videos of this meteorite from different viewpoints. Video meteorite is then used scientist studying the trajectory of a meteor in the atmosphere. Here's a video of this meteorite.

2. Lacing Caracas

On 15 September 2007, a meteorite fell to Earth near the village of Caracas, Peru and creating a crater 15 meters. When local residents to investigate, in the cauldron of boiling water and centered on the bottom of the crater. The crater is also issued a stench that makes the investigators could not bear to be long in the crater. A few days after the incident, about two thousand villagers suffered a mysterious illness. Villagers suffer from nausea, dizziness and vomiting. Later, scientists test ny's Mining, Metallurgy, and Geology Institute (INGEMMET) in the fall of meteorites indicate sites, villagers arsenic poisoning. According to scientists, the meteorite capable of removing arsenic gas when meteorites hot surface met an underground water contaminated with toxic elements.

3. Hodges Meteorite

On November 30, 1954, fireball tore the sky Alabama. This meteorite produce a sonic boom that raises the television interference as far as 112.6 km of a celestial body is falling. When in the atmosphere, the rock is broken into three parts. When Ann Elizabeth Hodges asleep on the couch near his home in Oak Grove Sylacuga, Alabama, the largest fraction of the meteorites of wine suddenly fall from the roof of his house. Celestial body is reflected on the radio and on the waist. Hodges got badly bruised but still able to walk, and he became the first person in recorded history was hurt because extraterrestrial object. At that time, the US Air Force for a claim directly to the location of the meteorite. Analysis shows it is khondrite H4 stone, iron stone.

4. Sikhote-Alin meteorite rain

In 1947, approximately 90 thousand pounds of pure iron fell from the sky Eastern Siberia. Sikhote-Alin meteorite (the name is taken from the mountain where these objects fall) entered the atmosphere at a speed of 14 km / sec. These objects appear brighter than the sun when the fall and look as far as 300 miles. Smoke trail of these objects can be seen for several hours after the fall, and for many years, fractions of iron objects found in trees.

5. Chicora cow killer

A meteorite exploded when entering the atmosphere Chicora, Pennsylvania on June 24, 1938. Based on the magnitude of the explosion, scientists estimate the initial mass of rock reaches 450 tons. However, only a small portion of this meteorite found. Some reports said, a cow fall of this stone and badly injured but the other one said, this stone managed to kill the poor beast.