Can a penny that is dropped off the Eiffel Tower kill someone?

           This myth is saying, does a penny have enough speed dropped of the Eiffel Tower to kill a human below?  Some people think this myth came from Physics class. Where people would think that with enough air friction the penny could just slice right through you.  The reason this has been a myth because it has a lot of scientific reasons in it.  The myth is not as old as some people think.  It has been thought about for around 10 years.

        

        This myth is based on air friction and distance time and velocity.  Velocity equals distance divided by time.  Does a penny have enough velocity and air friction to kill someone?  Physics Professor Louis Bloomfield says that people are thinking of a world without air.  This thought is based off the term "free fall" which means an object falls and the only force acting on it is gravity.  Louis Bloomfield is saying that the penny has to have gravity.  It would defanatly hurt when it hits your head.  But the penny will not ever hit you with enough velocity because of gravity, so there for it could not kill you.

          

       This Myth is not true based on velocity, distance and time.  So if someone was making a wish and threw it off the Eiffel Tower and the penny hit someone, don't worry, they didn't die, but probably got hurt.  

Work Cited:

Hayden. "A coin dropped from a height is lethal." True/False. Your Weekend, 16 
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     truefalse95-towercoin.html>. this website is saying that it isfalse. A 
     penny dropped off the Eiffle Tower will not kill someeone. but hurt them 

Stossel, Johns, and Gena Binkley. "Can a Penny Dropped From a Building Kill a 
     Pedestrian Below?" ABC News. John Stossel, 3 May 2007. Web. 27 Sept. 2010. 
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