Question

A 300kg asteroid strikes the Earth going 250m/s. Assume the velocity is
along the line connecting the Earth’s and asteroid’s center of mass. (The earth has an inertia of 5.97 × 1024kg.)
(a)]Find the amount of kinetic energy that is converted to another form in the earth’s
reference frame.

Answer 1

of whom is the velocity 250m/s

Answer 2

Use the total mechanical energy formula to calculate how much kinetic energy is converted to potential energy. The final velocity has to be 0.