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What size of gouging of the earth surface would it make?

Terminal velocity through the atmosphere is not that fast, even for large chunks of metal. Maybe a couple of hundred miles per hour. Many of the pieces shown are quite lightweight, like tiles, and would make no visible impression. And a lot of the pieces would be going pretty much straight down when they hit, having lost most of their translational velocity high in the atmosphere.

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