A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball

Boing Boing reports on a remarkable cosmic discovery from nineteen ninety-one: the University of Utah's Fly's Eye detector recorded a single atomic nucleus arriving from space with the kinetic energy of a baseball traveling at one hundred kilometers per hour. It remains one of the most energetic cosmic rays ever detected.

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