In class we learned more about momentum and the conservation of momentum. We did a problem in class that reminded me of air riflery because just like how in the problem the asteroid breaks apart into three pieces when you shoot a pellet it often breaks apart into a lot of pieces. If you could collect all of the pieces and add their momentum together it would equal the momentum from before the pellet broke apart. Although all of the different pieces are all different masses and traveling in different directions the momentum will still be the same because of the law of conservation of momentum which states that momentum in = momentum out.
This is a picture of me shooting at states a couple of years ago, the asteroid example just made me think of a pellet breaking apart after being shot.
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