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For a Spacecraft Going from the Earth Toward the Sun

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For a spacecraft going from the earth toward the sun, at what point will the gravitational forces due to the sun and the Earth cancel?
[Earth's mass: me = 5.98 × 1024 kg
sun's mass: ms = 1.99 × 1030 kg
Earth-sun distance: r = 1.50 × 1011 m]

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2.60 × 108 ...

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