What is the minimum speed with which a meteor strikes the top of the Earth's stratosphere (about

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What is the minimum speed with which a meteor strikes the top of the Earth's stratosphere (about 40 km above Earth's surface), assuming that the meteor begins as a bit of interplanetary debris far from Earth? Assume the drag force is negligible until the meteor reaches the stratosphere?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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