Boy Survives 30,000 mph Meteor Hit

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

If it was pea-sized it would NOT have been traveling 30,000 MPH. It would have been going at whatever the terminal velocity is for a small pea-sized rock (or slightly faster). It would have still hurt........

The terminal velocity is the top speed at which an item falls at free fall is it not?

A meteor comes to earth already having a much higher velocity.

The meteor that created Meteor Crater in Arizona was, most definitely, not traveling at terminal velocity.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

The terminal velocity is the top speed at which an item falls at free fall is it not?

A meteor comes to earth already having a much higher velocity.

The meteor that created Meteor Crater in Arizona was, most definitely, not traveling at terminal velocity.

They are traveling very fast when they hit the atmosphere but any small fragments that hit the ground are going MUCH slower. Rocks that hit the ground that are baseball (or golf ball) sized or smaller are traveling at terminal velocity or just a little faster. There are actually equations for this but have no idea what they are.

[Praxeas]

Like the myth that a penny dropped from the top of the empire state building will bury itself into the skull of whomever it hits and kill them...not true

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Like the myth that a penny dropped from the top of the empire state building will bury itself into the skull of whomever it hits and kill them...not true

What's not true?

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Like the myth that a penny dropped from the top of the empire state building will bury itself into the skull of whomever it hits and kill them...not true

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

What's not true?

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Like the myth that a penny dropped from the top of the empire state building will bury itself into the skull of whomever it hits and kill them...not true

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Like the myth that a penny dropped from the top of the empire state building will bury itself into the skull of whomever it hits and kill them...not true

There used to be some real dunderheads in our old church who believed things like this -like the myth that someone spitting from the top of the Empire State Building would kill whoever it hit, yet not wonder why rain drops didn't come down like a hail of bullets using the same reasoning.