Find temperature at which meteoroid rises momentarily


A 850-kg meteoroid happens to be composed of aluminum. When it is far from the Earth, its temperature is -13.5 °C and it moves at 14.5 km/s relative to the planet. As it crashes into the Earth, assume the internal energy transformed from the mechanical energy of the meteoroid Earth system is shared equally between the meteoroid and the Earth and all the material of the meteoroid rises momentarily to the same final temperature. Find this temperature. (Assume the specific heat of liquid and of gaseous aluminum is 1 170 J/kg · °C, the melting point is 660 °C, the boiling point is 2 450 °C, the latent heat of fusion is 3.97 multiply.gif 105 J/kg, and the latent heat of vaporization is 1.14 multiply.gif 107 J/kg.)

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