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Why does someone seeing it fall indicate that it's not a meteorite? Because people statistically never see it fall (and so are lying or mistaken?) or is there
by cwkoss 5y ago
Why does someone seeing it fall indicate that it's not a meteorite?
Because people statistically never see it fall (and so are lying or mistaken?) or is there a different source of airborne rocky things?
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- rich_sasha 5y agoThey are small and fast enough that you wouldn’t notice them. A 10cm diameter iron meteorite has a terminal velocity of about 600kph / 400mph / 160m/s. And remember it’s not glowing or red hot or followed by a plume of smoke, so you just won’t see it. So if “someone saw it” it’s either something else, or they are making it up.