Correction for the speed of a Meteor
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How fast is 0.000025830 times the speed of light?
It's about one-fifth as fast as a Meteor
The speed of a Meteor is about 0.00014 times the speed of light.
(formally Meteoroid or meteorite, depending on the context; a.k.a. "shooting star", a.k.a. "falling star")
Small meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere at speeds between 0.0000370 times the speed of light and 0.00024 times the speed of light, depending on their size. The fireball effect, known as ablation, ceases once the atmosphere has slowed the meteoroid to a velocity of about 0.00000930 times the speed of light.