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How many people have died of meteoroid strikes?

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Hi, Heather, thank you for the A2A. Thankfully, no one has ever been killed as the result of a meteoroid. read more

In February 2013, the sonic boom from a massive meteorite damaged buildings and injured more than a thousand people near the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. (See pictures: "Meteorite Hits Russia." ) But that damaging space rock was not the first to shatter a human life. read more

In 1825, people reported that a man was killed and a woman was injured by a meteorite in Oriang, India, although scholars have not been able to confirm the incident. In 1827, a man was said to be injured after being struck in the arm by a space rock in Mhow, India. read more

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