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Is 186,282.3970 miles per second as fast as a Meteor?

It's about 7,000 times as fast as a Meteor
The speed of a Meteor is about 26 miles 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 6.90 miles per second and 45 miles 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 1.70 miles per second.
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