Prof. Bloomfield considers pennies from heaven (AKA the Empire State Building): 'If it did strike you, it would feel like being flicked in the forehead "but not even very hard," said Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. And he should know. He recently used wind tunnels and helium balloons to replicate the fall of pennies from skyscrapers.' For more, see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/could-penny-kill-you_n_1321721.html