It wasn’t going 30,000mph when it hit him. His hand would have exploded if it had.
I dunno how they arrived at 30,000 mph, but it’s quite credible. A object falling from the Ort cloud to the surface of earth will be traveling about 44 km/sec (100,000 mph), most of the acceleration being provided by the sun’s gravity. The atmosphere will slow it down some...
I thought that, too, but if it just grazed his hand and hit nearly parallel to the skin’s surface (like 0.00001 degress), MAYBE.
Precisely what I was thinking.....but I clicked on the story anyway!
Probably, it grazed him, and did not “bounce off” him, and then create a divot of the stated size.
Unless the kid is super-human or....not really HUMAN AT ALL!!
This is HUGH and SERIES!!!
We’ve got an inter-galatic war going on here on earth!! No wonder Obama is spending the way he is.
No wonder....
[It wasn’t going 30,000mph when it hit him. His hand would have exploded if it had.]
You misread, actually the boy was going 30,000 mph.
Not true. At that velocity, very little of its energy would be transferred to his hand. It might punch a neat round hole through... or (as in this case) where it hits obliquely, a longitudinal gouge. I doubt the meteorite "bounced" off his hand... at that velocity I doubt his hand had much effect on the meteor. If they had said his hand bounced off the meteor, I think that would be more correct.