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It isn't completely as simple... small ones should survive more easily but when size increases they retain their speed much better than in earth's atmosphere meaning in there smaller objects fall down with cosmic speed and explode.
Originally posted by spacedoubt
I guess the odds of finding a meteorite on Mars is much greater than on Earth..More would survive, the thinner atmosphere.
Fist sized rocks are slowed down by atmosphere, they come down like rock you throw to air.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
cant be a meteorite, it would have made a crator. yet it looks like it's been placed there