Nah. If that crater was caused by a small meteorite it wasn't travelling at a few hundred miles an hour. If the ejecta had sufficient energy to maim and kill, either the meteorite has transferred momentum from it's great mass or great velocity (or a useful combination of both). Let's try and bury the old Slashdot shibboleth about how meteorites just fall to earth like stones from the top of the Empire State building. More than willing to hear from somebody better equipped.
A meteorite entering at as near damn vertical to the atmosphere will take less than 10 seconds to plough through the last 60 miles (100k), if you fully discount deceleration just for the moment (not going all Calculus). If it starts in at a reasonable 25000mph, roughly 40000km/h, (on the low side for these things) that pissy bit of atmospheric braking has a job to do. a = v-u/t . That looks like a deceleration of 4X10^6 m/sec/sec to me. It's not an even deceleration of course because there isn't a whole lot of atmospheric density until the last 20k. Now the good old gravity thing adds 9.0 m/sec/sec to the acceleration side of the equation making it that bit harder to slow this thing down to a few m/sec constant velocity at some reasonable undefined height above ground. The outcome required would be a "survivor" saying "who threw that" vs a "bystander" saying 'did that guy just blow up"?
It is reasonable to argue that ablation removes momentum so we probably can't get any further until we can find useful figures that allow a back of hand calculation for loss of mass. I suppose we'd need to define a standard mass/velocity (momentum) required at the Earth's surface to maim somebody and go backward from there.
The terminal velocity argument needs a lot more definition of its parameters IMHO.
Some sort of committee is needed to eventually, after much debate, to lay down the basis for further investigation.
Small has to be defined. (Smaller than Wolf Creek impactor isn't sufficient)
Angle of entry to the atmosphere has to be defined. ("Any angle that delivers my proposed outcome" kind of lacks force of argument).
If this thing is to be funded I suspect it is necessary to investigate how this type of incident, something, something, climate change.
You know, this guy has given his given his life for science and saved us a whole lot of future bother. Next time somebody states that a meteorite won't kill you - just post the picture of the hole.