The large pebbles from space, it would fall on Earth 84,000, over 10 grams, every year, but have human beings ever been killed by meteorites? In 2016, an Indian man named Kamaraj was killed on a university campus in an explosion of unknown origin. According to local authorities, he was struck by a meteorite, but NASA has expressed serious doubts. If it is not poor Kamaraj, then we have to go back to 1888 to find the trace of the first meteorite victim in history. This is what the year
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