During July 1994 the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed intoJupiter in a spectacular

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During July 1994 the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed intoJupiter in a spectacular fashion. The comet actually consisted of21 distinct pieces, the largest of which had a mass ofapproximately 4.0 x 1012 kg and a speed of 6.0 x104 m/s. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solarsystem, has a mass of 1.9 x 1027 kg and an orbital speedof 1.3 x 104 m/s. If this piece of the comet had hitJupiter head-on, what would have been the change(magnitude only) in Jupiter's orbital speed (not its finalspeed)? During July 1994 the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed intoJupiter in a spectacular fashion. The comet actually consisted of21 distinct pieces, the largest of which had a mass ofapproximately 4.0 x 1012 kg and a speed of 6.0 x104 m/s. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solarsystem, has a mass of 1.9 x 1027 kg and an orbital speedof 1.3 x 104 m/s. If this piece of the comet had hitJupiter head-on, what would have been the change(magnitude only) in Jupiter's orbital speed (not its finalspeed)?

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13000 m/s

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