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retardation point comparison table

Subject	occur for	has start time	has altitude	has definition	is a kind of	has duration
meteor event				The event in a sequence of the events during the passage of a meteor. They are in order : incandescent flight fireball smoke trail meteoroid break up retardation point dark flight meteorite impact	impact event
retardation point	meteoroids heavier than 10 tons they impact with a significant fraction of their cosmic velocity	shortly after the time of initial contact with atmosphere but before impact	inversely proportional to the mass of the meteoroid	the point in the flight of a meteoroid through the atmosphere where it loses its cosmic velocity and falls freely due to gravity	meteor event	zero (it is a point in time)

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