The orbital velocity for a sattelite orbiting  earth at it's radius is 8 km/s. What would be the orbital velocity around a planet that was 2 times as massive as earth but 1/2 the size?

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The orbital velocity for a sattelite orbiting  earth at it's radius is 8 km/s. What would be the orbital velocity around a planet that was 2 times as massive as earth but 1/2 the size?

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