Homework Help: physics

Posted by Anonymous 007 on Monday, February 25, 2013 at 11:56am.

Recently, Asteroid 2012 DA14 came within 34,200 km from the center of the earth at its point of closest approach. If the moon goes around the earth once every 27.5 days, what is the ratio of the distance of closest approach of DA14 to the radius of the orbit of the moon?

physics - Anonymous, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 4:26am
1st, find the radius of the orbit of the moon.

2nd, then divide 34,200 from the result.

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