1. Intro to Physics Units
Solving Density Problems
Problem 6.69a
Textbook Question
Textbook QuestionThe Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft, after traveling 2.1 billion km, orbited the asteroid Eros with an orbital radius of about 20 km. Eros is roughly 40km x 6km x 6km. Assume Eros has a density (mass/volume) of about 2.3 x 10³ kg/m³ .
(a) If Eros were a sphere with the same mass and density, what would its radius be?
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