What was the meteors speed at impact

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The Barringer meteor crater in northern Arizona is 180 m deep and 1.2 km in diameter. The fragments of the meteor lie just below the bottom of the crater. If these fragments accelerated at a constant rate of 5×105m/s^2 as they plowed through the Earth, what was the meteor's speed at impact?

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