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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.
-Assuming for this calculation that Callisto's initial momentum is zero kg . m/s, what is the recoil speed of Callisto immediately after the collision?


A) 3.34 × 10-18 m/s
B) 1.27 × 10-14 m/s
C) 3.58 × 10-12 m/s
D) 6.13 × 10-7 m/s
E) 1.18 × 10-5 m/s

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