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Reading on weighing scales at the equator of a moon in a tidally locked two-body system

I'm trying a made-up extension of this problem. Consider the planet Mars and its moon Deimos, which can be approximated as meeting the following simplifying conditions: Both objects are perfect ...
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Why rendezvous attempt failed on Gemini 4? [closed]

It is said in Wikipedia, that On the first orbit, McDivitt attempted to rendezvous with the spent Titan second stage. This was unsuccessful for a number of reasons: NASA engineers had not ...
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