You have just finished a space walk where you were fixing your space telescope using a tool with a mass that is one tenth of yours. You realize you have no way to get back to your spaceship which is 10 meters away from you, so you throw the tool as hard as you can in the opposite direction of the spaceship which causes you to move toward the spaceship. Problem 2.1. When you finally reach the spaceship, how far away are you from the tool?

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You have just finished a space walk where you were fixing your space telescope using a tool with a mass that is one tenth of yours. You realize you have no way to get back to your spaceship which is 10 meters away from you, so you throw the tool as hard as you can in the opposite direction of the spaceship which causes you to move toward the spaceship.

Problem 2.1. When you finally reach the spaceship, how far away are you from the tool?

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