Timeline for Do meteorites really land on Earth, or did the interviewee mean that ironically?
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 0:38 | comment | added | Peter Wone | They certainly arrive suddenly. Anything big enough to reach the ground with a solid core will be travelling at terminal velocity which for an iron spear dropped from 30,000m is about Mach 3. Since meteors enter the atmosphere much higher and with significant velocity they often hit the ground at more than Mach 10. This is not something you will see coming. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 22:19 | comment | added | David K | My impression is that sense 2.4 is a metaphor derived from the tendency of various objects--such as meteorites--to land in sense 2.3, and to do so suddenly and unexpectedly. In short, I would have picked sense 2.3. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 6:51 | history | answered | Kris | CC BY-SA 4.0 |