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That's the kind of lottery that requires buying zero tickets :).

Is it more, less or equally probably to win the lottery? If it is the same or less there is no need to buy lottery tickets, we are all playing all the time :-)

Much less likely. Thousands of people win $1 million or more in lotteries every year. Only a handful have their houses hit by million-dollar meteorites.

Extended over a sufficient time interval, odds increase markedly. Though the events themselves may effect market function and hence price.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-youre-more-likely-to-die-from-a-...

Its more like everyone getting one lottery ticket for free, but with the option of buying more. Anyway I suspect people winning lotteries is more frequent that people having meteorites hit their house.

> one lottery ticket for free

One lottery ticket for free for each property you own. I guess it could be ten, or zero.

I don't know what happens when a property is being rented though. E.g. Alice rents a house to Bob, they just signed the papers, suddenly they hear a crash and a meteorite lands on the table. Who can claim it?

Edit: I've found the answer at https://www.spacelegalissues.com/space-law-meteorites-and-th...

"What about meteorites and their legal status? Legal solutions similar to the French one can be found in Morocco (the meteorites belong to those who find them), in Japan (the property of meteorites can be acquired by occupation), in England (the meteorite belongs to the landowner) or in the United States of America. However, any meteorite that has fallen on any part of the U.S. federal land (lands in the United States of America owned by the federal government) is insusceptible of private property, since it belongs de jure to the federal government."

Sounds like a good premise for a comedy.

Buying tickets would render one ineligible?

you have to have a house ;) in some places it is quite an expensive ticket :D

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