We are told that Wolf was blown "into a million pieces" and that the fragments entering the atmosphere "lit up the sky for over an hour". The effect of that much mass entering the atmosphere would have been far from harmless. While they may have been smaller, they would not be traveling any slower when they entered the atmosphere. Any pieces big enough to get any distance would create an ionization trail resulting in a 20,000-degree jet of flame shooting up the piece's trajectory. Most damaging, however, would have been heating caused by atmospheric friction as all those pieces descended into the atmosphere. This would have generated millions of kilowatts and heated thousands of cubic miles of the upper atmosphere to at least the temperature of a pizza oven, cooking any exposed ground below it.
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