Question

A meteor moving 468 km/min traveling in a south-to-north direction passes near Earth in 2013. Because the meteor was only 45 m wide and was 27,700 km above Earth’s surface, it was not visible without the aid of a telescope. Calculate the average speed of the meteor in km/sec as it heads northward.

Answer 1

Answer: 7.8km/sec

Step-by-step explanation: Being that we need to convert it from minutes to seconds causes it to be a decrease. Knowing this we divide the 468km by 60 due to the amount of seconds in a minute, this gives us our answer of 7.8km/sec.

Answer 2

Its velocity was 7.8 km/s northward. I took a test like that let me know if I was wrong ❤️!!!