If two things collide, where does the lost energy go? is it transferred into other forms?

A perfectly inelastic collision is one in which two objects colliding stick together, becoming a single object. In an inelastic collision, energy is lost to the environment, transferred into other forms such as heat. In the above figure, two objects A and B with the same mass m are 15 m away from each other.

the moon affects the earth gravitation ally, causing certain motions of that body and also producing tides in its ocean and atmosphere. the tidal wave in our atmosphere is, however, far too minute to be an effective cause in any known meteorological phenomenon.

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