Meteorite did not kill Indian man, NASA says
The agency said the driver might have died due to “a land based explosion”.
"But NASA scientists in the United States were more emphatic, saying in a public statement that the photographs posted online were more consistent with 'a land based explosion' than with something from space," The New York Times reported.
Lindley Johnson, NASA’s planetary defense officer, said in an email to The New York Times that a death by meteorite impact was so rare that one has never been scientifically confirmed in recorded history.
“There have been reports of injuries, but even those were extremely rare before the Chelyabinsk event three years ago,” she told the newspaper, referring to a 2013 episode in Russia.
According to media reports, a driver, who was identified as Kamaraj, died after a meteorite hit a college campus at Vellore town in India's Tamil Nadu state last week.
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