8. Centripetal Forces & Gravitation
Acceleration Due to Gravity
Problem 6.69b
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 .
(b) What would g be at the surface of a spherical Eros?
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