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Past exam of the physics 1 paper of the University of Oxford 2013 8 b Solution by
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Taking the Earth's sidereal rotation period as , , and givesThe orbital radius is therefore about , or an altitude of about . Replacing the sidereal day by changes this estimate by less than .
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