Two asteroids collide in space. The collision is not completelyinelastic--the asteroids pull apart and continue on their way.Their masses are 8.7 X 108 kg for Asteroid A and 3.4 X108 kg for Asteroid B. Treat Asteroid A as beinginitially at rest. Asteroid B, moving at high speed, strikesAsteroid A and moves from the collision at a speed of 7300 m/s in adirection 48 degrees from its original path. Meanwhile, Asteroid Amoves away from the collision at a spee of 4400 m/s at an angle of27 degrees from the original path of Asteroid B, but in theopposite direction, of course. Assume no significant amount of massis lost in the collision (a definite oversimplification).
a) Find the initial momentum, and from it the original speed, ofAsteroid B before the collision.
b) How much kinetic energy was lost in the collision?
