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The NASA orbital debris programme has a few pictures of impacts on returned space craft. Obviously these craft are travelling very much slower than 0.9 c.

(http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protect/impacts.html)

(http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/photogallery....)

And some of the debris is quite large - (http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/gallarypage/s...) (Is that tape inches?? So that lump is about 1.5 to 2 inches?)

There are existing projects researching near earth impacts from high speed objects (http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/ares/hvit/problem.cfm) so maybe there's some trickle through to research between very fast craft and small objects.



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