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Chapter 18, Problem 84GP

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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), after traveling  billion , is meant to orbit the asteroid Eros at a height of about . Eros is roughly 40 \mathrm{~km} \times

\(6 \mathrm{~km} \times 6 \mathrm{~km}\). Assume Eros has a density (mass/volume) of about \(2.3 \times 10^{3} \mathrm{~kg} / \mathrm{m}^{3}\).

(a) What will be the period of  as it orbits Eros?

(  ) If Eros were a sphere with the same mass and density, what would its radius be?

 What would  be at the surface of this spherical Eros?

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Text Transcription:

40 km x 6 km x 6 km      

2.3 x 103 kg/m3  

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