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Ten days after it was launched toward Mars in December 1988, the mars climate Orbiter
spacecraft (mass 629 kg) was 2.87 x 106km from the earth and travelling at
1.20 x 104 km/h relative to the earth. At this time, what were (a) the spacecraft’s kinetic
energy relative to the earth, and (b) the potential energy of the earth-spacecraft system?