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		ericbarrett on Sept 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fireball over Iceland In a peer comment's link to the video, the videographer estimates this one was the size of a tennis ball. A typical meteor you might catch out of the corner of your eye on a dark summer night is the size of a rice grain.

llamaimperative on Sept 17, 2023 [–]

That’s bonkers

User23 on Sept 17, 2023 | [–]

Good old p=mv. And that v can be pushing 70 km/s thanks to the combined motion of the Earth and the meteoroid.

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