If you stopped an Earth satellite dead in its tracksthat is, if you reduced its tangential velocity
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If you stopped an Earth satellite dead in its tracks—that is, if you reduced its tangential velocity to zero—it would simply crash into Earth. Why, then, don’t the communications satellites that “hover motionless” above the same spot on Earth crash into Earth?
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Conceptual Physical Science
ISBN: 978-0134060491
6th edition
Authors: Paul G. Hewitt, John A. Suchocki, Leslie A. Hewitt
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