Find the spacecrafts kinetic energy relative to the earth

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Solve the all parts of following question given below:

Question: Ten days after it was launched toward Mars in December 1998, the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft (mass 629 kg) was 2.87 x 106 km from the earth and traveling at 1.20 x 10⁴ km/h relative to the earth. At this time, what were the following-

(a) The spacecraft's kinetic energy relative to the earth.

(b) The potential energy of the earth-spacecraft system.

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