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Is 591.280 kilometers per second as fast as a Meteor?

It's about fourteen times as fast as a Meteor
The speed of a Meteor is about 42 kilometers 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 11 kilometers per second and 72 kilometers 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 2.80 kilometers per second.
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