Editing Meteorite (section)

=== Striking people or property ===

Throughout history, many first- and second-hand reports speak of meteorites killing humans and other animals. One example is from 1490 AD in China, which purportedly killed thousands of people.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Human Casualties in Impact Events|last=Gritzner|first=C.|date=October 1997|pages=222–6|journal=WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization|volume=25|bibcode=1997JIMO...25..222G}}</ref> John Lewis has compiled some of these reports, and summarizes, "No one in recorded history has ever been killed by a meteorite in the presence of a meteoriticist and a medical doctor" and "reviewers who make sweeping negative conclusions usually do not cite any of the primary publications in which the eyewitnesses describe their experiences, and give no evidence of having read them".<ref>''Rain of Iron and Ice'' by John Lewis, 1997, {{ISBN|978-0-201-15494-8}}, pp. 162–163.</ref>

Modern reports of meteorite strikes include:
*In 1954 in [[Sylacauga, Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://imca.repetti.net/metinfo/metstruck.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128190630/http://imca.repetti.net/metinfo/metstruck.html |archive-date=2007-01-28 |title=Meteorite Targets: Keep Watching the Skies! |publisher= repetti.net |access-date=4 May 2013}}</ref> A {{Convert|4|kg|adj=on}} stone chondrite,<ref>[http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/metcat//detail.dsml?Key=S4530&index= Natural History Museum Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311025321/http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/metcat/detail.dsml?Key=S4530&index= |date=11 March 2007 }}. Internt.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved on 17 December 2011.</ref> the [[Hodges meteorite]] or Sylacauga meteorite, crashed through a roof and injured an occupant.
*An approximately {{Convert|3|g|oz|adj=on}} fragment of the Mbale meteorite fall from [[Uganda]] struck a youth, causing no injury.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Jenniskens|first=Peter|title=The Mbale Meteorite Shower|volume=29|issue=2|journal=Meteoritics|pages=246–254 |bibcode=1994Metic..29..246J |doi=10.1111/j.1945-5100.1994.tb00678.x|year=1994}}</ref>
*In October 2021 a meteorite penetrated the roof of a house in [[Golden, British Columbia]] landing on an occupant's bed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904|title=Woman rocked awake by meteorite chunk crashing into her bedroom|access-date=12 October 2021|archive-date=12 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211012215609/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904|url-status=live}}</ref>