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Does the escape velocity formula take into account how a gravitationally bound object's distance to its primary increases before coming back down?
Confusing title, I know. Imagine a perfect, homogenous sphere with an exact radius of $1,000 \text{km}$ and an exact mass of $8 \times 10^{15} \text{kg} $.
If you use the formula for escape velocity $...
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