In 1908 There Was a Huge Explosion Referred to as the Tunguska

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In 1908 there was a huge explosion referred to as the Tunguska event which occurred in Siberia. Apparently this was caused by a very large meteorite, a small asteroid, or a comet colliding with the Earth. If the energy released, estimated at J, were from the kinetic energy of the object, what would have been its approximate mass if its speed had been m/s?

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