Consider a monkey wrench released at rest at the far edge of the solar system that drops to Earth by virtue of only Earth's gravity. The wrench will strike Earth's surface with a speed of about
A) 10 m/s.
B) 8 km/s.
C) 11 km/s.
D) the speed of light.
Answer: C
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