Several years ago several chunks of a comet slammed into the far
side of Jupiter. Given that
kg
and
km, estimate how much energy
was released in the (inelastic) collisions of a typical comet fragment
with Jupiter. Assume that the comet fragment is a ball of ice with
density
gm/cm
and of radius 0.5 km. State clearly the
basis of your argument, drawing pictures or graphs if necessary.