A spaceship is traveling through space, far away from any planets or stars. The ship has a mass of 520,000 kg and is traveling toward galactic at a speed of 6,200 m/s. Suddenly, an asteroid traveling the opposite direction at a speed of 8300 m/s strikes the spaceship. When the astronauts wake up, they find the asteroid embedded in the hull of their ship, which is now traveling at a speed of 4800 m/s, still in the direction of galactic north. Determine the mass of the asteroid. Determine how much kinetic energy was lost in the collision in joules. If the collision was elastic, determine how much kinetic energy the ship-asteroid system would have had after the collision.

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