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Woman escapes meteorite
From correspondents in London
August 18, 2004

MOST people would think they were supremely unlucky to be struck by a falling meteorite while out in their back garden.

But British great-grandmother Pauline Aguss is just grateful the rock only grazed her arm.

The 76-year-old was hit by a swiftly-falling fragment of rock while hanging out washing in her garden in the county of Suffolk, eastern England, the Sun newspaper reported in tomorrow's edition.

If the golf ball-sized fragment was confirmed as originating from space, Mrs Aguss would be the first Briton ever known to have been struck by a meteorite, the newspaper said.

Mrs Aguss told the newspaper that she had felt a sudden sharp pain in her arm, and her husband found a small chunk of metallic brown rock where she had just been standing.

    
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Woman escapes meteorite
From correspondents in London
August 18, 2004

MOST people would think they were supremely unlucky to be struck by a falling meteorite while out in their back garden.

But British great-grandmother Pauline Aguss is just grateful the rock only grazed her arm.

The 76-year-old was hit by a swiftly-falling fragment of rock while hanging out washing in her garden in the county of Suffolk, eastern England, the Sun newspaper reported in tomorrow's edition.

If the golf ball-sized fragment was confirmed as originating from space, Mrs Aguss would be the first Briton ever known to have been struck by a meteorite, the newspaper said.

Mrs Aguss told the newspaper that she had felt a sudden sharp pain in her arm, and her husband found a small chunk of metallic brown rock where she had just been standing.

   

   
   

"I couldn't believe it when Jack found the rock on the grass. I was so relieved it hadn't hit me on the head. I could have been killed," she told the paper.

A spokesman for the British Astronomical Association said it was "quite possible" the rock concerned was a meteorite, but said that the chances of being struck were generally "tiny".

Agence France-Presse

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