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There's no authoritatively correct reference for what "slow" or "fast" should mean in extraterrestrial contexts, however, I think it makes sense to look at it like this:

Suppose you were watching a (CGI) movie or a video of a meteor hitting Earth, with the whole globe on screen.

The diameter of the Earth is almost 13,000 km. So a meteor(oid) going even 70 km/s is going to take 3 minutes to hit from one diameter away.

It should look like it's barely moving on a planetary scale.




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