Will a physicist help us understand how the two satellites collided last week?

BBWJewel

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I could swear that in my Physics class last semester, that for a satellite to be at a certain altitude, it had to go a certain velocity. In my simplistic view (I hate Newton and his dang gravity and rotational motion crap! lol), if all the satellites at that altitude are going the same speed, how did they collide?
well duh, thanks for clarifying they can go any direction, like yarn winding around a ball. i'm a silly girl!

wish me luck on my first test in physics two tomorrow, blech freakin electric fields and i wonder why they use such a similar formula to the Big G formula? very peculiar if you ask me. i think newton had the god of physics telling him how to calculate Big G
 
I don't know much about this event but they may have been going different directions.

I love Newton and the whole gravity section in physics class by the way.
 
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