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Killer Meteorites

Hello Ron and List,

Has anyone compiled a definitive list of meteorite hits on people, other animals and man-made structures (houses, cars, etc.)?  I would like to have such a list (hopefully with references to supporting news sources or other historic literature).

Has anyone collected a set of the famous photo images of the more notorious cases (Egyptian dog, bruised woman, crunched Chevy Malibu, etc.)?  I would like to collect a few 35 mm slides of these events (and would gladly pay reproduction costs).

Steve
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Steve Excell
Seattle  USA
E-Mail: excell@cris.com
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Ron Baalke [SMTP:BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov]
Sent:	Monday, May 04, 1998 9:53 AM
To:	meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject:	Killer Meteorites

Someone mentioned that Nakhla was the only known meteorite known to kill (dog).  There's been other deaths as well, including one that killed a calf in 1860.  There were also unconfirmed reports of other deaths, including a man killed in 1825, an monk around 1610, and 10,000 (!) people killed in China in 1490 during an apparent meteorite storm.  A lot of these  reports have been difficult to verify because they happened so long ago. 
There is small number of cases where a person was hit but lived, the most well known example when a 8.5 meteorite struck a woman in her house in Alabama in 1954.  There is about 150 instances of man-made object being hit by meteorites (cars, houses, boats, maiboxes, etc.), and there are even more instances of near-misses.  
Ron Baalke