5) Consider these two facts: (a) The Earth has been hit by as many impactors as the Moon and Mars. (b) The state of Virginia has a total land area of about 102,000 km2 . Calculate how many 5-km-sized craters have been formed in Virginia over the last 4 billion years. [Show your work.]

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initial speed when it is dropped is 150 ft/s

now at the same moment the acceleration due to gravity is perpendicular to its velocity

so as we know that

now we have centripetal acceleration a = 32 ft/s^2 as its perpendicular to velocity

while tangential acceleration at the same moment will be zero

so

now radius of curvature is given as

so the radius of curvature just after it is dropped is 703.125 ft

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