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David Seaver
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Sorta. Over a fixed spot on earth in an equatorial orbit, and moving at the correct speed. The version we calculated as undergrads stops there.
Real-world gets a bit messier, since the Earth's gravitational field is nonuniform and there's that pesky Moon, so the Earth orbits a barycenter, and...
2025-08-10T22:55:17.411Z