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| object falling 10 m || 14 m/s || 46 ft/s || 31 mph||98 J/kg
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| thrown [[club (weapon)]] (expert thrower) || 40 m/s || 130 ft/s || 90 mph || 800 J/kg
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| object falling 100 m || 45 m/s || 150 ft/s || 100 mph||980 J/kg
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| refined (= flexible) [[atlatl]] dart (expert thrower) || 45 m/s || 150 ft/s || 100 mph || 1000 J/kg
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| 80-lb-draw pistol [[crossbow]] bolt || 58 m/s || 190 ft/s || 130 mph || 1.7 kJ/kg
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| [[paintball]] fired from marker || 91 m/s || 300 ft/s || 204 mph || 4.1 kJ/kg
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| 175-lb-draw [[crossbow]] bolt || 97 m/s || 320 ft/s || 217 mph || 4.7 kJ/kg
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| [[air gun]] [[Pellet (air gun)|pellet]] 6 mm [[BB gun|BB]] || 100 m/s || 328 ft/s || 224 mph || 5 kJ/kg
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| 2kg Tungsten Slug (from Experimental [[Railgun]]) || 3000 m/s || 9843 ft/s || 6711 mph || 4.5 MJ/kg
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| [[ICBM]] [[reentry vehicle]] || up to 4 km/s || up to 13000 ft/s || up to 9000 mph || up to 8 MJ/kg
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| projectile of a [[light gas gun]] || up to 7 km/s || up to 23000 ft/s || up to 16000 mph || up to 24 MJ/kg
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| satellite in LEO || 8 km/s || 26000 ft/s || 19000 mph || 32 MJ/kg
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| [[Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle]] || closing speed roughly 10 km/s || ~33000 ft/s || ~22000 mph || ~ 50 MJ/kg
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| projectile (e.g. [[space debris]]) and target both in [[Low Earth orbit|LEO]] || closing speed 0 - 16 km/s || ~53000 ft/s || ~36000 mph || ~ 130 MJ/kg
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