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I have no idea if this is a true story or a flight of fancy but just from looking at the scar on the kids hand it's instantly apparent that it's very plausible that it did indeed graze him prior to making a small impact crater. Any amateur astronomy buff knows that for a pebble size space rock to make it to the surface of the earth it would have been shedding mass all the way down, both by burn off and crack up and separation... meaning that the pea sized particle would have been marble sized just seconds earlier, and baseball sized just seconds before that. The meteor as descibed by the boy was a bright ball of light which indicates that it was indeed burning off it's mass at a rapid rate, which also indicates that the meteor would have had a sphere of hot gas and vapor surrounding it as well as a long tail of red hot sand size particle ejection. The meteorite would not have the characteristics of a bullet, but rather a sphere of force far wider than the final pebble..Closer to a foot in diameter. It's entirely possible that this sphere of hot gas and red hot sand ejection, or the tail, did graze the kid before striking the earth, of course this incidental contact made no change in the meteors trajectory, the term "bounced off" is just bad verbage used by the reporter which is what threw you guys off... All said I wouldn't be suprised if the story turned out to be bullshit anyway.

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