meteor strike really stuff hollywood blockbusters on screen means impending doom reality getting hit space debris worse scratchin 1998 hollywood offered meteorite heavy films armageddon deep impact potential solutions stave impending meteorite based disaster enlist bruce willis aerosmith travel space blow offending rocks install morgan freeman president hope thing blows apparently planet threatening rocks headlines week sensationalist news 45bn year old meteorite hurtled roof parisian home – housing family called comettes despite builder claiming superman strength break tiles 35oz meteorite question lodged houses glass wool insulation said size egg madame comette proudly chirped meteorite landing garden magical unlikely winning lotterythe prosaic reality occurrences trumped rarity odds hit usually estimated thousand 2009 14 year old german boy gerrit blank came contact 30000mph meteorite escaping minor scars alabama resident ann hodges had similar encounter 1954 meteorite blasted roof sleeping pinged radio grazing hip apocryphal story astronomers involves called nakhla meteorite said struck dog 1911 canines remains foundas wayward space systems entering earths orbit mass speculation satellites land returning planet origin interesting event momentary hysteria broke earlier year tonne upper atmo sphere research satellite launched 1991 space shuttle discovery threatened earth unknown location despite anxiety bus sized block detritus engulf crashed little fanfare breaking ocean similar fate befell soviet union space salyut 7 early 1990s crumbled argentinian town capitan bermudez scattering metal went leaving residents unharmed best known incidents remains premature return nasas skylab 1979 its remains spread australian coastline town esperance little incident san francisco examiner offered $10000 person provide paper hunk space junkthe recorded person actually hit falling space garbage oklahoma resident lottie williams who received knock shoulder debris delta 2 rocket booster walking park 1997 resurfacing tell tale year i just want people know actually happened said lottie going mention banal affair roughly hit soda bruce willis notethe space class=terms>