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Gravity Is Not Responsible For Accelerating The Meteor

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Posted by Mark on June 19, 2002 05:42:55 UTC

At least, not Earth's gravity that is...

It was traveling very fast long before it got within Earth's vicinity. The gravitational pull of the planet doesn't play much a role in accelerating the speeding projectile groundward.

I don't think this situation applies to the terminal velocity phenomenon.

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