Re: (meteorobs) Meteorites and Terminal velocity

• To: meteorobs@jovian.com
• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Meteorites and Terminal velocity
• From: Steve Harrison <k0xp@asusdot net>
• Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:00:03 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <4f.544c70f.2776536b@aol.com>
• Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
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At 14:13 12/23/2000 EST, you wrote:
>......His velocity during the free fall reached over 700 mph before 
>reaching the denser part of the atmosphere with a slower terminal velocity. 
>His free fall lasted over 4 minutes and 30 seconds. Apparently his fall 
>didn't generate enough heat to damage his fragile human body.

Uh... don't the faster meteorites enter the atmosphere something more like
700 miles per TEN SECONDS (around 30-72 km/sec)?? Quite a bit faster than
700 mph, in any case.

SteveH
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