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Did you see the picture and get the impression that the rock was traveling at supersonic velocities? Really?

Are you being serious? It's a known fact that meteorites travel many many times faster than sound!

When they enter the atmosphere, yes, but not when they reach the surface of the earth. Any rock-like object below ~15 m in size will reach terminal velocity before hitting the ground.

But this object was not traveling at supersonic speeds when it hit the house. Meteorites below a certain size slow down to terminal velocity long before they reach the surface.

There is also Doppler effect, and dogs are known to be able to hear ultrasound.

Doppler effect doesn't allow sound go to faster than the speed of sound.

Dogs can indeed hear ultrasonic frequencies, but ultrasonic frequencies of sound, being sounds, travel at the speed of sound. Things that travel faster than the speed of sound go faster than sounds.