Evaluation of the Poisson distribution parameter and its uncertainties using only one observation

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I heard that, for example, the number of meteorites that hit the Earth follows the Poisson distribution. My question is how to estimate the Poisson parameter $\lambda$ and confidence interval for this estimation if we have only one observation.

Let's propose that we observe that for the period of 100 years we observed 4 meteorites. How can we now estimate $\lambda$ and 90% c.i.'s for that observation?