Meteorites

Xenophile wrote:

>A 10 cm meteor can be dealt with by the
>Earth's atmosphere. For that matter, the radiation shield of a
>Habitat can probably deal with a 10 cm meteor.

Assuming "rock" and 25km/s you're looking at a something like a 4m crater
and half a gigajoule of energy; equivalent to, say, 100kg of TNT.

http://www.bumply.com/astro.htm#5
http://www.thefuturists.org/converter.swf

Meaty but survivable...as long as it doesn't strike the glass. (And if it
/does/ then the hole will be small, and the leakage survivable.)

Andy G