Your job with NASA is to monitor satellite orbits. One day, duringa routine surv
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Your job with NASA is to monitor satellite orbits. One day, duringa routine survey,you find that a 400 kg satellite is going to collide with a smaller100 kg satellite travelling in the same
orbit but in the opposite direction. Knowing the construction ofthe two satellites you expect they will
become enmeshed into a single piece of space junk. When you notifyyour boss of the impending
collision, he asks you to quickly determine whether the space junkwill continue to orbit or crash into
Earth.
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