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Is 851 meters per hour as fast as a Meteor?

It's about one-two-hundred-thousandth as fast as a Meteor
The speed of a Meteor is about 150,000,000 meters per hour.
(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 40,000,000 meters per hour and 260,000,000 meters per hour, depending on their size. The fireball effect, known as ablation, ceases once the atmosphere has slowed the meteoroid to a velocity of about 10,000,000 meters per hour.
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