How fast can a meteorite go?

Answer 1

If it is traveling through space, it is a meteoroid (a sand to boulder sized particle of debris in the Solar System). Meteoroids travel around the sun in a variety of orbits and at various velocities. The fastest ones move at about 26 miles per second (42 kilometers per second). The speed can depend on the distance from the Sun.

The visible path of a meteoroid that enters a planets atmosphere is called a meteor (or shooting star or falling star). The earth travels at about 18 miles per second (29 kilometers per second). Thus, when meteoroids meet the Earth's atmosphere head-on, the combined speed may reach about 44 miles per second (71 kilometers per second).

If a meteoroid reaches the ground, it is then called a meteorite. (and is thus on the ground motionless).

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Answer 2

Depending on the cloud of cometary debris the meteor was associated with, a typical meteoroid will be travelling at 10 to 40 kilometers per second (about 2,180 to 8,880 mph). It becomes a meteor when it enters the atmosphere.

The compression of the gas in front of the meteor causes it to heat up and slows the meteor down, so that it is traveling at a much slower speed if and when it impacts the ground. This speed will relate to the terminal velocity of the object, no more than 300 mph near the ground and often very much less. Some meteors explode in the air as "bolides" while still traveling at supersonic velocities, from 1000 to more than 40,000 mph.

*This does not apply to the huge meteors that struck Earth in the distant path, which weighed hundreds of tons and may have impacted with speeds of 11 km/sec (25,000 mph) or more.

Answer 3

They all vary, depending on where they are in their orbits, but the range of speeds for comets and for meteors are probably fairly close. In many cases, we know that the meteors are associated with comet orbits.

Answer 4

Its velocity with respect to Earth is typically somewhere between 10 and 70 km/second. It depends a lot whether it hits Earth from the "front" or from "behind" (with relation to Earth's movement around the Sun).

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Answer 6

Unless it is dislodged or moved by any other means, not at all. The term "meteorite" refers to a meteoroid that is already on the surface of the Earth.

*See the related question

Answer 7

Typical speeds are between 10 and 70 kilometers per second.

Answer 8

between 25,000 and 160,000 mph.