"George Normandin" wrote:

Here's want I know so far:
"We just got a call from emergency services in Port Crane, New York. He said
this morning a couple (names deleted) were eating breakfast and a loud crash
sent them to their garage, where they say a big rock had crashed thru the
window and made a hole in the concrete floor.

Wait, what? A "hole," as in "it put a hole clean through a 4" thick
concrete slab"? What kind of Dirty Harry Callahan meteor is this?

Would a small meteor--even a hypothetically pure nickel-iron job--have
enough energy at terminal velocity to hole a residential garage slab?

Unless it was really big, it'd have reached terminal velocity before
it hit the ground: something less than 100 meters per second. If it
was big enough to retain much of its relative velocity, those two in
the house wouldn't have been around to ask questions afterward.
Nonetheless, strange things do happen, so who knows.

On the other hand, maybe they simply meant "chipped a small divot out
of the floor's surface."
--
Dave