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Some of the best descriptions are in Niven and Pournelle's "Lucifer's Hammer", or the (formerly) great A.C. Clarke's intro to "Rendeszvous with Rama", or Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" Trilogy discussing the fall of the space elevator.
For these authors, the lyric poetry of the incandescent moments is the acme of their prose.
See also websites on e.g. Meteor Crater arizona, which have good descriptions of the moment-by-moment entry of a bolide...
(Also, some of the "end of the dinosaurs" sites")
Enjoy...