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Is 100 feet per minute as fast as a Meteor?

It's about one-eighty-five-thousandth as fast as a Meteor
The speed of a Meteor is about 8,300,000 feet per minute.
(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 2,200,000 feet per minute and 14,000,000 feet per minute, depending on their size. The fireball effect, known as ablation, ceases once the atmosphere has slowed the meteoroid to a velocity of about 550,000 feet per minute.
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