Where is our solar system located in the Milky Way?

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SSSSS [86.1K]3 years ago

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Our solar system is located in the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a spiral galaxy .

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It is given that, an alien spaceship traveling at 0.600 c toward the Earth, in the same direction the landing craft travels with a speed of 0.800 c relative to the mother ship. We have to find the kinetic energy as measured in the Earth reference frame, if the landing craft has a mass of 4.00 × 10⁵ kg.

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