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Sally and Sam are in a spaceship that comes to within 17,000 km of the asteroid Ceres. Determine the force Sally experiences due to the presence of the asteroid. The mass of the asteroid is 8.7 1020 kg and the mass of Sally is 76 kg. For calculation purposes assume the two objects to be point masses.
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