>yeah. Did you pick up on the fact that the speed of an incoming meteor is >around 13 miles per second? They're pretty fast indeedie. Speed relative to the ground depends on earth/rock vectors... a rock FOLLOWING the earth will be moving much more "slowly" than one colliding head-on with the planet. >I saw a picture of a woman who was hit in the stomach by a meteorite when I >was a kid at grade school. > >I think the picture was from the 40's or 50's, but she was sleeping in the >bedroom when the meteorite smashed thru the roof. > >The roof slowed it down enough so that all it did was leave a huge black >and blue bruise. It is likely that the bruise was caused by a piece of house (shrapnel). A rock large enough to leave such a huge bruise would not have been slowed much by the roof. She would have been splashed. Simple physics. |
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