alt Hacker News> In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please.
Does this happen often in the US?
I mean often enough that folks happen to know the legality of it?
In which case I find it extremely frightening that one could be sitting on their porch, minding their own business, browsing HN, and then get unexpectedly head-shotted by a meteorite.
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jlarocco • yesterday at 5:16 PM
It happens at the same probability as anywhere else on earth.
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According to this article, we know of three people who have been hit by meteorites, all non-fatally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_(meteorite)
Not sure if we should count Tunguska, which killed at least three people.