The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater when it fell to Earth

Re:The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater ... by vanattab on Saturday November 10, 2018 @01:52PM (#18422817)

I don't think the earths magnetic field is anywhere near strong enough to seriously effect a meteorites velocity.

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Re:The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater ... by dysan819 on Saturday November 10, 2018 @04:02PM (#18423490)

You don't have to guess, you can do the math.

While you're at it, watch this, it's fun (and related): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENgdSF8ppA

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Re:The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater ... by raverbashing on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:24AM (#18425252)

Yes, you can do the math. But "practical" intuition gives you a good sense of possible orders of magnitude, though, sometimes fails.

A compass needle is easily moveable by hand. Even Lenz effect forces (when only driven by magnets) are weaker than the attraction forces of the same magnet (depending on the speed, of course) though going east->west the flux doesn't change much.

So my conclusion is that, even though it might have had a small effect on it, absolutely not enough to make it change velocity significantly.

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