A cricket ball of mass is bowled at through an opening a few millimetres wide

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Problem

A cricket ball of mass

0.15\,\text{kg}

is bowled at

40\,\text{m\,s}^{-1}

through an opening a few millimetres wide. Explain in two or three sentences why no diffraction pattern is observed on the other side of the opening.