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An astronaut is doing an EVA at the ISS. He is trying to screw in a bolt with a special zero-gravity wrench. After an hour of unsuccessfully using it, it breaks. The astronaut gets so mad he winds up and
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An astronaut is doing an EVA at the ISS. He is trying to screw in a bolt with a special

zero-gravity wrench. After an hour of unsuccessfully using it, it breaks. The astronaut
gets so mad he winds up and throws the wrench as hard as he can toward the earth.
What will happen to the wrench after that?

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It will burn up in the atmosphere.

Step-by-step explanation:

The wrench will assume a decaying elliptical orbit around the earth, eventually entering the denser atmosphere. It will heat sufficiently to melt and evaporate.

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