IT'S ARMAGEDDON! A Texas sized asteroid is headed for Earth! You've been hired by NASA to be part of a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet! As the engineer (and most educated person) on the team, you've been tasked with doing the calculations to make sure the Earth will be saved. The plan is to land on the 6.1 x 10²1 kg asteroid traveling at 9830 m/s and detonate a nuclear bomb. The asteroid will break into two pieces of equal mass. One piece will fly off at an angle of 30° and speed 9700 m/s. What will be the speed and angle of the second piece? Scientists estimate that as long as the angle is greater than 15° we're all gonna be alright! Note: This is a totally ridiculous scenario, but the movie made a lot of money and had a lot of famous people in it. Typical Hollywood, right? Note 2: I made up the numbers, but they're close to what the movie describes.

IT'S ARMAGEDDON! A Texas sized asteroid is headed for Earth! You've been hired by NASA to be part of a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet! As the engineer (and most educated person) on the team, you've been tasked with doing the calculations to make sure the Earth will be saved. The plan is to land on the 6.1 x 10²1 kg asteroid traveling at 9830 m/s and detonate a nuclear bomb. The asteroid will break into two pieces of equal mass. One piece will fly off at an angle of 30° and speed 9700 m/s. What will be the speed and angle of the second piece? Scientists estimate that as long as the angle is greater than 15° we're all gonna be alright! Note: This is a totally ridiculous scenario, but the movie made a lot of money and had a lot of famous people in it. Typical Hollywood, right? Note 2: I made up the numbers, but they're close to what the movie describes.

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IT'S ARMAGEDDON! A Texas sized asteroid is headed for Earth! You've been hired by NASA to be part of a misfit
team of deep-core drillers to save the planet! As the engineer (and most educated person) on the team, you've been
tasked with doing the calculations to make sure the Earth will be saved. The plan is to land on the 6.1 x 10²1 kg
asteroid traveling at 9830 m/s and detonate a nuclear bomb. The asteroid will break into two pieces of equal mass.
One piece will fly off at an angle of 30° and speed 9700 m/s. What will be the speed and angle of the second piece?
Scientists estimate that as long as the angle is greater than 15° we're all gonna be alright!
Note: This is a totally ridiculous scenario, but the movie made a lot of money and had a lot of famous people in it. Typical
Hollywood, right?
Note 2: I made up the numbers, but they're close to what the movie describes.
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m/2, v1
m, vi

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