How much time do the people on the ship have to react


A starship with a rest mass of 4.5 × 109 kg is traveling at a speed of 0.995 c when its sensors pick up a stationary asteroid directly in its path, 1.5 × 1010 m away. How far away from the ship is the asteroid according to a (stationary) outside observer? How much time do the people on the ship have to react before it hits the asteroid?

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