

In Kimi no Na Wa, Mitsuha is able to save everyone in the town even as the
comet fragments were falling. So I'd like to ask, just how long would the
comet fragment take to fall, in a timeframe that still allows everyone to
reach the High School before the comet strikes?


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In Kimi no Na Wa., how long does the comet fragment take to reach Itomori Town?


Personally I think the comet's fragment has gone through a full orbit around
the Earth, because it is unlikely that it has diverted so much from the
original comet trajectory (which is tangential to Earth) to fall almost
perpendicularly, since the break was above Japan and the fragment also fell in
Japan [![Comet fragment
trajectory](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ovXae.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ovXae.jpg)

So it is likely that more than an hour has passed between the break and the
impact.

By the way, I'm not an aerospace engineer, maybe my reasoning does not make
sense ^^


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It reached its perigee at 7:50. At 8:52 it impacted. In the light novel, it
was written that everyone stood in awe until it was to late.


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