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"I don't have any firm numbers" followed by "I'm pretty sure". Sounds like the beginning of a myth.



http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=188105

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/06/04/...

A direct comparison may be misleading b/c since you could model meteorite impacts with a probability distribution over latitude/longitude, whereas Mythbusters presumably uses the same testing site(s). Also note that the Google answer's 3 cases of meteors causing injury or damaging property all lie in the US.




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