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588 10 people killed in rural China
by large meteorite impact.
1492 The Ensisheim meteorite, a 127-kg meteorite, lands in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace
.
1795 December 13 A meteorite fell at Wold Newton, a hamlet in Yorkshire
in England
. This meteorite fall was subsequently used as a literary premise by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as the basis for the Wold Newton family stories. See: Wold Newton meteorite.
1846 The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg
chondrite type meteorite struck earth 7.5 miles (12 km) south of the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
1860 A chondrite type meteorite fell to earth in Muskingum County, Ohio near the town of New Concord.
1861 ?The Canellas meteorite, an 859 gram
chondrite type meteorite struck earth near Barcelona, Spain.
1865 The "Claywater Meteorite" explodes just before reaching ground level in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg
were recovered.
1872 A meteorite struck earth near Banbury, England.
1881 A meteorite struck earth near the village of Großliebenthal, a few kilometers southwest of Odessa, Ukraine
.
1911 A 772 gram
stony meteorite struck earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin near the village of Kilbourn damaging a barn.
1912 A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg
exploded over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1916 A 611 gram
chondrite type meteorite struck a house near Baxter, Stone County, Missouri.
1922 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA
1932 A 5.1 kg
chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven fragments and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1938 A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
1954 In Sylacauga, Alabama, a 4 kg meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and hits Ann Hodges, badly bruising her, in the first documented case of an object from outer space
hitting a person.
1973 The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg
chondrite type meteorite, strikes Earth in Fremont County, Colorado.
1992 A 13-kilogram (29-pound) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
2004 A 1.3 kg
chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand, causing serious damage but no injuries.
2005 A 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe
, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) crater
.
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