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If a satellite moving in a circular orbit is raised to another circular orbit 3-times as far from the Earth's center and where the kinetic energy of the satellite is 3-times less, by what factor does the centripetal force on the satellite decrease?

ANSWER: 9 (Solution: F = mv /R, numerator times 1/3, denominator times 3; or use Newton's law of universal gravitation, F proportional to 1/R )