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Old 4th April 2014 | 14:42
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Video: Skydiver almost gets hit by meteorite

Apart from being an interesting read in itself (a skydiver managed to film a small falling meteor passing him as he descended), this is an interesting reminder that terminal velocity is not the fastest an object can fall, it is the stable falling speed an object will tend towards regardless of whether it starts out slower or faster. It is the speed at which wind resistance up is equal to the mass times the acceleration due to gravity down, resulting in no net acceleration.
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