Agroup of scientists is trying to launch an object into orbit, and the object is traveling at 6500 m/s. which best explains why the object will not successfully orbit earth? there is not enough air resistance to keep the object moving. there is not enough friction to keep the object moving. the object is not traveling fast enough to match earth’s curvature. the object is traveling too fast to match earth’s curvature.

One hazard of space travel is debris left by previous missions. there are several thousand masses large enough to detect by radar orbiting the earth, but there are far greater numbers of very small masses such as flakes of paint. calculate the force exerted by a 0.110 mg chip of paint that strikes a space shuttle window at a relative speed of 5.00 ✕ 103 m/s and sticks, given the collision lasts 6.00 ✕ 10-8 s. such a collision chipped the window of the ill-fated challenger in june 1983, causing $50,000 of damage.