What is the wavelength of a 500,000-kg asteroid heading at 20,000 meters per second toward the Earth?
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What is the wavelength of a 500,000-kg asteroid heading at 20,000 meters per second toward the Earth?
From de Broglie's wavelength equation:
where h = Planck's constant and p = the object's momentum. Recall that momentum is mass times velocity. Can you take it from here?
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