What are two factors that give a large meteorite more kinetic energy than a batted baseball?

Answer 1

Kinetic energy is determined by the formula, Ek = mv2/2, and a large meteor has more mass and velocity than a Baseball. Mass matters, but the velocity gets squared.

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Two factors that give any meteorite higher kinetic energy than a batted baseball, are their comparative masses and velocities. A baseball may weigh about 9 oz and travels a little over a hundred miles an hour off the bat. Even a meteorite of small mass has more kinetic energy than that because of its high velocity (maybe about 25,000 miles an hour, or more). A large meteorite would have high velocity also, but given large mass, it would have extremely high kinetic energy.

Answer 2

KE = 1/2mv2, where m is mass in kg and v is velocity in m/s. Kinetic energy is directly proportional to the mass of the object, so an object with greater mass is going to have greater kinetic energy.

Answer 3

Two factors that give a large meteorite more kinetic energy than a batted baseball are the mass of the meteorite, which is significantly greater than that of the baseball, and the velocity at which the meteorite is traveling through space, which can be much higher than the speed of a batted baseball.