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A Comet Fragment of Mass 1

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A comet fragment of mass 1.96 × 1013 kg is moving at 6.50 × 104 m/s when it crashes into Callisto, a moon of Jupiter. The mass of Callisto is 1.08 × 1023 kg. The collision is completely inelastic.
-How much kinetic energy was released in the collision?


A) 8.28 × 1022 J
B) 3.51 × 1027 J
C) 7.02 × 1027 J
D) 4.14 × 1022 J
E) 1.50 × 1013 J

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