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Dave Golder

Dave Golder

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Galaxy NGC 4424, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

How do we measure distance in space?

How do we know how far away objects are in space, and what units of measurements are used in astronomy for determining these distances?

American Dr Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on side and hip of his patient, Ann Elizabeth Hodges (1923 - 1972), who had been struck by a meteorite while inside her home, Sylacauga, Alabama, late 1954. (Photo by Jay Leviton/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

Ann Hodges, history’s only meteorite victim

The only recorded case of a person being injured by a meteor happened in 1954.

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