Is 139 inches per second as fast as a Meteor?
It's about one-ten-thousandth as fast as a Meteor
The speed of a Meteor is about 1,700,000 inches per second.
(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 440,000 inches per second and 2,800,000 inches per second, depending on their size. The fireball effect, known as ablation, ceases once the atmosphere has slowed the meteoroid to a velocity of about 110,000 inches per second.
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