If you could throw an object high enough to reach space how hard would you have to throw it

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Aiden Arias

24 January, 12:13

If you could throw an object high enough to reach space how hard would you have to throw it

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Eleanor Barnett · Answer 1

To throw an object into the space you need to throw it with the escape velocity of the earth which is 11.2 km/sec. therefore if you can throw an object with the speed of 11.2 km/sec it will leave the earth atmosphere and will reach to the space.