A spacecraft is in a circular orbit about the moon, 1.22 105 m above its surface.
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A spacecraft is in a circular orbit about the moon, 1.22 × 105 m above its surface. The speed of the spacecraft is 1620 m/s, and the radius of the moon is 1.74 × 106 m. If the moon were a smooth, reflective sphere,
(a) How far below the moon’s surface would the image of the spacecraft appear, and
(b) What would be the apparent speed of the spacecraft’s image?
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