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CP You are exploring a distant planet. When your spaceship is in a circular orbit at a distance of 630 km above the planet’s surface, the ship’s orbital speed is 4900 m/s. By observing the planet, you determine its radius to be 4.48 × 106 m. You then land on the surface and, at a place where the ground is level, launch a small projectile with initial speed 12.6 m/s at an angle of 30.8° above the horizontal. If resistance due to the planet’s atmosphere is negligible, what is the horizontal range of the projectile?
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