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Re:The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater ... by russdill on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:02PM (#18423185)
Impactors like that have not slowed to their terminal velocity. They either are small enough to be slowed by the atmosphere, bigger and explode in the atmosphere, bigger still and they race all the way the ground.
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Re:The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater ... by eloff on Saturday November 10, 2018 @04:28PM (#18423615)
you're right
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Re:The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater ... by russdill on Saturday November 10, 2018 @06:30PM (#18424090)
Completely off topic, but it really pisses me off that stuff like this gets covered uncritically:

https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/02/08/meteorite-kil...

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