Huge asteroid is slamming into the Earth’s orbit in ‘once in a decade' event

SOLVED:A Near-Earth Asteroid. On April 13,2029 (Friday the 13th!), the asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass within 18,600 mi of the earth- about (1)/(13) the distance to the moon! It has a density of 2600 kg / m^3, can be modeled as a sphere 320 m in diameter, and will be traveling at 12.6 km / s . (a) If, due to a small disturbance in its orbit, the asteroid were to hit the earth, how much kinetic energy would it deliver? (b) The largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States was the "Castle