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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!blanton
  3. From: blanton@mksol.dseg.ti.com (John F Blanton)
  4. Subject: Re: satellite orbits
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.230952.25044@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
  6. Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
  7. References: <376oXB3w165w@netlink.cts.com> <1993Jan21.213632.3246@newshost.lanl.gov> <1993Jan22.015334.9290@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:09:52 GMT
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  11. Strictly speaking, you can't call the force the satellite
  12. exerts on the earth "centrifugal", which means "fleeing from
  13. the center."  The force is really toward the center of the
  14. CG of the satellite-earth system.
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  16. blanton@lobby.ti.com
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