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Originally posted by Reaper@Sep 8 2004, 01:43 PM
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@Sep 8 2004, 11:44 AM
One of these times, NASA is going to screw up and crash-land something like this right ontop of a mid-sized midwestern town. They may be the smartest guys in the world, but in my opinion they're not smart enough to be sending objects crashing towards the earth at 11km a second.
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Terminal Velocity for the Probe = 162 kmh
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45 metres per second.
If anyone could make some something go 11km/second then I would imagine that they would probably do whatever they wanted to given that kind of destructive power.
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From the article:
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As Earth's gravitational pull brought it closer, the capsule picked up speed rapidly, reaching velocities of 25,000 mph or 11 kilometers per second. The capsule's descent was then slowed by atmospheric re-entry.
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Sounds to me like what I said was true. The object was approaching earth and travelling at 11 kilometers per second. I never suggested that this was the actual speed of impact. The article itself says that the impact was at 309 km per hour. [/b][/quote]
Sorry, my bad.
85 metres per second was the impact velocity.