Boy Hit by Meteorite Traveling at 30,000 MPH
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A teenager was hit by a meteorite travelling at 30,000mph - and lived to tell.
Gerrit Blank was on his way to school when he saw a massive fireball heading straight towards him from the sky.
The white-hot meteorite bounced off the schoolboy's hand and hit the ground so hard it left a foot-long crater in the tarmac - as well as a three-inch scar on his hand.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Gerrit, 14, said: "At first I just saw a large ball of light and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand.
"Then, a split second after that, there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder."
"The noise that came after the flash of light was so loud that my ears were ringing for hours afterwards.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself in the road."