Record Details
| Meteorite falls in China and some related human casualty events | |||||||
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| Abstract: | Statistics of witnessed and recovered meteorite falls found in Chinese historical texts for the period from 700 B.C. to A.D. 1920 are presented. Several notable features can be seen in the binned distribution as a function of time. An apparent decrease in the number of meteorite reports in the 18th century is observed. An excess of observed meteorite falls in the period from 1840 to 1880 seems to correspond to a similar excess in European data. A chi sq probability test suggest that the association between the two data sets are real. Records of human casualities and structural damage resulting from meteorite falls are also given. A calculation based on the number of casualty events in the Chinese meteorite records suggests that the probability of a meteroite striking a human is far greater than previous estimates. However, it is difficult to verify the accuracy of the reported casualty events. | ||||||
| Publication Date: | November 01, 1994 | ||||||
| Document ID: |
19950035640
(Acquired December 28, 1995)
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| Accession Number: | 95A67239 | ||||||
| Subject Category: | LUNAR AND PLANETARY EXPLORATION | ||||||
| Document Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
| Publication Information: | Meteoritics; p. p. 864-871; (ISSN 0026-1114); 29; 6 | ||||||
| Publisher Information: | United States | ||||||
| Financial Sponsor: | NASA; United States | ||||||
| Organization Source: |
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech.; Pasadena, CA, United States NASA Headquarters; Washington, DC, United States |
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| Description: | 8p; In English | ||||||
| Distribution Limits: | Unclassified; Publicly available; Unlimited | ||||||
| Rights: | Copyright | ||||||
| NASA Terms: | CASUALTIES; METEORITIC DAMAGE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; CHINA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METEOROID HAZARDS; TIME DEPENDENCE | ||||||
| Imprint And Other Notes: | Meteoritics vol. 29, no. 6 p. 864-871 November 1994 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous Notes: | Research sponsored by NASA | ||||||
| Availability Source: | Other Sources | ||||||