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...without being able to directly:? observe them beneath several kilometers of seawater.

That would all depend on the masses of the two, and the average distance apart. Link to formula:

of the other. Which is true? a) The two satellites travel at same speed b) the heavier satellite travesl 2 times faster than the lighter one c) the lighter satellite travels 2 times faster than the heavier one d) the heavier satellite travels 4 times faster than the lighter one why?

...the total surface area? can someone tell me how to do this and the answer, please?

Do any satellites orbit Earth higher than 50,000 miles?

Carbon Observatory satellite? The satellite that failed to reach orbit and crashed today. After all, "Who profits?" This was a satellite that could disprove the various disproofs of global warming put forward by Cheney's corporate cohorts.

I have this assignment due and am in some desperate need of help. I have already created a function that draws earth. The function returns the radius. My problem is trying to get a "satellite" to orbit my earth Have the user input an initial x velocity (vxo) and the initial height from the...

The earth is a sphere with a radius of R= 6,367,445 m. A sidereal day is 86,164.09 sec. A satellite orbits the earth in circular orbits once in exactly half a sidereal day. Gravity at an altitude of h meters is equal to g(h)=9.81 x (R/(R+h))^2 m/s^2. What is the altitude of the satellite?

http://www.space.com/news/090215-satelllite-debris-reentry.html this is a good article on just one of the possibilities. also digg.com has another article that i found quite interesting. http://digg.com/space/Space_crash_debris_to_orbit_Earth_for_10_000_years

A satellite orbiting the moon very near the surface has a period of 110 min. What is the moon's acceleration due to gravity. This is all the information that the problem gave. I feel like you can solve it if you know the radius of the moon, but they didn't so I'm stuck. Well, it seems like...

That's more of a math question than astronomy. Calculate the orbit speed of the shuttle, and the circumference of the orbit. Compare that to the circumference of the Earth. Use the ratio to calculate the ground speed of the shuttle. Orbit speed = 17,000 - 1000 = 16,000 mph Orbit...

what are the implications? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision More than 500 pieces of debris spawned from the high speed collision, and both satellites were destroyed. If these collision happen often, it will prove a real danger to EVA: the astronauts orbit the Earth at 10...

parallel to equatorial plane at? a latitude other than 0 ?

A satellite of mass m is in a circular orbit of radius R2 around a spherical planet of radius R1 made of a material with density X. ( R2 is measured from the center of the planet, not its surface.) Use G for the universal gravitational constant. Question #1: Find the kinetic energy of this...

A 620 kg satellite orbits the earth where the acceleration due to gravity is 0.233 m/s^2. What is the kinetic energy of this orbiting satellite? I need to know how to do this...NOT the answer.