Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Is more kinetic energy passed on during a collision in space?

For example if 2 rocks crash together in space will they have more kinetic energy than if they did so on earth. My logic: momentum is always conserved but energy is lost by heat/sound etc. Since sound doesnt exist in space because it's a vacuum does it mean the energy which would have been wasted as sound is translated to kinetic energy?

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