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This is just Kepler’s third law, which says that the period of an orbit is proportional to the 3/2 power of its radius; 6378 km is the radius of the Earth. At an altitude ofkm, a satellite orbits the Earth once
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Document Date: 2011-04-04 22:16:57


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