Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-14250-20180410045656/@comment-14250-20190607051103

She doesn't exactly "lift" it as stop it from falling further with locked arms. Given the high speed it goes going, the initial deceleration would've been the greatest challenge. Merely holding it up afterwards should be child's play by comparison.

WG was probably just roleplaying. Given how easily she pressed it up into the air (at that point she is lifting it) and launching it into the water, holding it up shouldn't been no effort at all by comparison.

Unless of course, WG's abilities are short bursts of mega-strength (stopping the initial meteor fall, launching it later) but she can't do sustained strength for more than a second, explaining why she'd have trouble merely holding it in place.

In GURPS terms, this might come down to her having a high "Striking ST" but a low "Lifting ST", or possibly that she has Lifting ST which costs FP, so she only activates it when catching/thrownig but turns it off (to recover her Fatigue Points) while holding it in place, so she struggles with her normal (still strong, but not MEGA strong) levels.

This would also explain why WordGirl would bother lifting lighter weights, or why something lighter than that meteor might cause her a strain in other episodes (conservation of FP)

We don't know the composition of that meteor though, so it's really hard to estimate what its mass would be.

What might be a good indication at the end of that clip however is the water it displaces. We DO know the mass of water, so if we can estimate the width (ie diameter of a circle) and height of that water spout, we can calculate the volume and thus the weight of displaced water.

I'm sure there's some physics formula for how much something needs to weigh to be able to make a splash of a certain size!

Plus it also displaced what looked to be a giant squid in the water too.