2. according to the passage, the afar depression is
a. a really sad place far away
b. a vast desert in northeast ethiopia, a country in africa
c. a lake of boiling lava
d. a place where two continents collide

After the near spacecraft passed mathilde, on several occasions rocket propellant was expelled to adjust the spacecraft's momentum in order to follow a path that would approach the asteroid eros, the final destination for the mission. after getting close to eros, further small adjustments made the momentum just right to give a circular orbit of radius 45 km (45 × 10^3 m) around the asteroid. so much propellant had been used that the final mass of the spacecraft while in circular orbit around eros was only 545 kg. the spacecraft took 1.04 days to make one complete circular orbit around eros. calculate what the mass of eros must be.

Suppose you have three polarizing filters, with the second at an angle of 42∘ to the first and the third at an angle of 90∘ to the first. by what perfect will the original intensity of unpolarized light be reduced to after passing through all three filters?

What would be the result of an alpha particle coming into a magnetic field? a) the alpha particle will stop moving. b) the alpha particle will reverse its direction. c) the alpha particle will be deflected in a curve path. d) the alpha particle will continue to travel in a straight line.