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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........
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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.
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