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The law of universal gravitation and Satellites and astronauts: Putting it all toget...

The law of universal gravitation and Satellites and astronauts: Putting it all together

The Moon travels in a 3.8 X 105 km radius orbit about Earth. Earth’s mass is 5.97 X 1024 kg. Determine the period T for one Moon orbit about Earth using Newton’s law of universal gravitation and Newton’s second law. What assumptions did you make?

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