14-year-old boy survived hit by a meteorite travelling at 30,000mph

and so it begins...

Gerrit Blank was walking to his school in Germany when the rock flew past, grazing his hand and leaving a smoking crater in the ground.

Gerrit was left with just a small scar. Scientists are now studying the object which is the size of a pea.

Hundreds of meteorites land on Earth every year but it's INCREDIBLY rare for anyone to be hit by one.

Most rocks heading towards the Earth burn up in the atmosphere.

The one that hit Gerrit would have been a lot larger, but it would have crumbled into pieces before hitting the ground.

Only one other person has survived a meteor strike. In 1954, a rock the size of a grapefruit crashed through the roof of a house in America.

It bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman.

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