What are the chances of being hit by a meteorite? In Popular Astronomy, Professor Lincoln LaPaz, head of the University of New Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics, estimates the odds: three chances out of ten that someone will be hit every 100 years. Since a little Japanese girl was nicked in 1927 by what was probably a meteorite, the danger for the rest of earth's inhabitants for the rest of the century is just about zero.
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