Some time ago Kim Hyatt had the idea to look for meteorites on (or would that be "in") the Salt Flats. That led some to wonder how deeply a fleshly fallen space rock would bury itself in the salt. And, being the crazies some of us are we thought, "Why not find out?" "Let's fly over the Salt Flats, drop a bowling ball and, provided we can find it, see how far it goes into the salt." So now we're doing a bit of number crunching to find out how high a bowling ball would have to be dropped from in order to have it impact at terminal velocity. Anyone out there care to give that problem a shot and report back here? How far would a bowling ball have to fall to reach the ground at terminal and what is terminal velocity for a bowling ball? The one answer we have so far says: "Terminal velocity is about 117 meters/sec. The bowling ball will reach 99.99% of terminal velocity at 59 seconds, after falling about 5922 meters." Cheers! Patrick