A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#775MB)
On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah's Fly's Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground recorded a single subatomic particle arriving from space with an energy of about 3.2*10^2 electronvolts - an atomic nucleus carrying the kinetic energy of a baseball traveling 100 kilometers per hour. - Read the rest
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