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American Lottie Williams, 48, was exercising in a Tulsa park one morning four years ago when she was hit on the shoulder by a six-inch piece of blackened metallic material.
A used Delta II rocket had crashed into the Earth's atmosphere half an hour earlier, and scientists at NASA believe that Williams was hit by a part of it - making her the only person in the world known to have been hit by man-made space debris.

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In 1997 an Oklahoma woman named Lottie Williams was hit in the shoulder by a 10 cm × 13 cm (3.9 in x 5.1 in) piece of blackened, woven metallic material that was later confirmed to be part of the propellant tank of a Delta II rocket which had launched a U.S. Air Force satellite in 1996.
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