Human Casualties in Impact Events

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Oct 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997jimo...25..222g&link_type=abstract

WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, p. 222-226.

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It is widespread error to believe that people were never killed by meteorites. It was concluded that there no human casualties due to meteorite falls because there were no reports about such incidents, but there are reports of these rare events. The statement of no one ever being killed by a meteorite may intend that the danger even of asteroid and comet impacts onto the Earth is only fiction, but the danger is real. It is a low-probability-high-consequence event for large impactors (more than 1 km). Even from meteorites, however, people were reported struck to death. This article gives a survey over reports of human casualties from 616 A.D. well to our century.

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