1965
- December 24
- In Barwell, England, two buildings are struck and a car is struck by falling meteorites. [521]
1966
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- The 11.5-ton Mundrabilla meteorite is found in Nullarbor Plain in Australia. [523.58]
- Fragments of the Coorara stony meteorite are picked up from Western Australian Nullarbor Plain. (They are found to have originated at the same age as the Solar System, about 4,555 million years ago.) [523.140]
- August 10
- Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again. [1]
- November 17
- Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour). [1]
1967
- July 11
- In Denver, Colorado, USA a building is struck by a falling meteorite. [521]
1968
- April 12
- In Schenectady, New York, USA a house is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
1969
- February 8
- Over 2 tons of stony carbonaceous meteorites (type CV3) fall near Pueblito de Allende in Mexico. (The mixture of oxygen isotopes indicate an origin from beyond the Solar System.) [523.91,123]
- April 25
- A fireball is photographed over Bangor in northern Wales, which falls in two pieces (one 4.95kg) 60km apart near Sprucefield and Bovedy, Northern Ireland. [521] [523.26]
- August 7
- In Andreevka, USSR a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
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- September 16
- In Suchy Dul, Czechoslovakia a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
- September 28
- In Murchison, Victoria, Australia, 1/2 ton fragments of a carbonaceous chondrite meteorites (type CM2) fall. [521] [523.90,123]
- December
- Japanese geologists find nine fragments of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains in the Antarctic. [523.55]
1970
- January 3
- The Prairie Network of cameras on parairie states of the USA records the fall of a stony meteorite, with four fragments totalling 17kg recovered near Lost City in Oklahoma, Nebraska. [523.46]
1971
- April 8
- In Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA a house is struck by a falling meteorite. [521]
- August 2
- In Havero, Finland, a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
1972
- August 10
- An asteroid 2-10m in diameter enters Earth's atmosphere over Utah, USA, and exits 100 seconds later over Alberta, Canada. [521]
1973
- March 15
- In San Juan Capistrano, California, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
- (month unknown)
- Japanese geologists find another 12 fragments of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains in the Antarctic. [523.55]
- October 27
- In Canon City, Colorado, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
1974
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- Japanese geologists find another 663 fragments of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains in the Antarctic. [523.55]
- The 4.45kg Mayo Belwa achondrite meteorite falls in Nigeria. [523.104]
- August 18
- In Naragh, Iran, a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
1976
- March 8
- 1,774kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China. [1] [523.35]
1977
- January 31
- In Louisville, Kentucky, USA three buildings and a car are struck by a falling meteorite. [521]
- February 5
- The Canadian Meteorite Observation and Recovery Programme photos stony meteorites landing at Innisfree, Alberta, weighing 4.58kg. [523.46]
1979
- June 7
- In Cilimus, Indonesia, a meteorite falls in a garden. [521]
1981
- June 13
- In Salem, Oregon, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
1982
- November 8
- In Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA a falling meteorite pierces the roof of a house. [521]
1984
- June 15
- In Nantong, People's Republic of China, a meteorite falls harmlessly to the ground. [521]
- June 30
- In Aomori, Japan, a building is struck by a falling meteorite. [521]
- (month unknown)
- The Gujba meteorite falls in Nigeria. [523.91]
- August 22
- In Tomiya, Japan, two buildings are hit by falling meteorites. [521]
- September 30
- A brillian fireball is seen crossing the sky over Toodyay and Pinjarrua on coast of Western Australia, with two loud bangs heard over Perth. A black stone meteorite the size of a large potato falls into the sand by a couple on the beach at Binningup. [521] [523.26]
- December 5
- In Cuneo, Italy, a bright daytime fireball is reported, resulting in a strong explosion, breaking windows. [521]
- December 10
- In Claxton, Georgia, USA a mailbox is destroyed by a meteorite fall. [521]
1985
- January 6
- In La Criolla, Argentina, a farmhouse roof is pierced, door smashed, by 9.5kg meteorite stone. [521]
- June 26
- In Hartford, Connecticut, USA a 1,500-pound slab of ice, six feet long and eight inches thick, falls from the sky flattening a picket fence, shaking the ground with the impact. [521]
1986
- July 29
- In Kokubunji, Japan, several buildings are hit by falling meteorites. [521]
1988
- March 1
- In Trebbin, German Democratic Republic, a greenhouse is struck by a meteorite. [521]
- April 15
- Meteorite explodes above Indonesia. [1]
- May 18
- In Torino, Italy a building is struck by a falling meteorite. [521]
- (month unknown)
- In the Thorsberg quarry near Österplana in southern Sweden, a fossil meteorite is found entombed in limestone. (It is later dated to have fallen to Earth 465-485 million years ago.) [523.139]
1989
- June 12
- In Opotiki, New Zealand a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
- August 15
- In Sixiangkou, People's Republic of China, a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
1990
- April 7
- In Enschede, Netherlands, a house is hit by believed fragment of comet Midas. [521]
- July 2
- In Masvingo, Zimbabwe, a meteorite falls harmlessly to the ground. [521]
1991
- August 31
- In Noblesville, Indiana, USA a meteorite falls harmlessly to the ground. [521]
1992
- August 14
- In Mbale, Uganda, forty-eight meteorite stones fall, 108kg total weight, damaging roofs, striking a boy on the head. [521] [523.28]
- October 9
- A 13-kilogram (29-pound) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu (pierces trunk and floor). [5] [33] [521]
1994
- January 18
- In Cando, Spain, a minute-long fireball and explosion over a hillside gouges out 200 cubic metres of terrain. [30] [521]
- February 1
- Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean. [1]
- October 20
- In Coleman, Michigan, USA a meteorite penetrates the roof of a house. [521]
1995
- May 1
- A fireball is seen in the sky over Australia. [523.35]
1996
- August
- NASA announces discovery of tentative evidence of traces of fossilized bacteria in the Allan Hills 84001 Martian meteorite from Antarctica. The meteorite landed on Earth about 13,000 years ago, so the bacteria may be Earthly contamination. [523.140]
- November 26
- Near San Luis, Santa Barbara, Honduras, a meteorite slams into a sparsely populated area, leaving a 165-foot-wide crater. [521]
1997
- April 11
- In Chambrey, France, a meteorite penetrates the roof of a car and starts a fire. [521]
1998
- June 13
- In Portales, New Mexico, USA a meteorite penetrates a barn roof. [521]
- July 12
- In Kitchener, Ontario, Canada a meteorite falls harmlessly to the ground. [521]
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