Your job with NASA is to monitor satellite orbits. One

Chapter 13, Problem 65CP

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Problem 65CP

Your job with NASA is to monitor satellite orbits. One day, during a routine survey, you find that a 400 kg satellite in a 1000-km-high circular orbit is going to collide with a smaller 100 kg satellite traveling in the same orbit but in the opposite direction. Knowing the construction of the two satellites, you expect they will become enmeshed into a single piece of space debris. When you notify your boss of this impending collision, he asks you to quickly determine whether the space debris will continue to orbit or crash into the earth. What will the outcome be?

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