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Find the Orbital Speed of an Ice Cube in the Rings

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Find the orbital speed of an ice cube in the rings of Saturn.The mass of Saturn is 5.68 × 1026 kg and the rings have an average radius of 100,000 km.(G = 6.67 × 10-11 N ∙ m2/kg2)


A) 19.5 km/s
B) 27.5 km/s
C) 13.8 km/s
D) 1.95 km/s

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