Meteor 'the size of a house' found here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155617/posts
If the world is ending Sunday then I guess I'll skip getting my haircut on Saturday.
Dirty snowballs the size of houses, by the millions. PER YEAR.
Crude estimates of the brightness of small comets which are devoid of brightly glowing dust particles are indeed about the brightness of Venus, and their impact rate is about 10 million per year. It is remarkable that the orbits and speeds calculated for many of the "fireballs" are similar to those for the small comets.
From here...
http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/lecture/lect5.html