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During the lunar mission of Apollo 11,Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the moon's surface in the lunar module while Collins remained in orbit in the command module.If the command module's period was 2 hours and 20 minutes,how high above the moon's surface did it orbit? (mmoon = 7.35 ×\times 1022 kg,Rmoon = 1.74 ×\times 106 m,and G = 6.67 ×\times 10-11 N · m2/kg2.)


A) 3.22 ×\times 105 m
B) 1.04 ×\times 1011 m
C) 5.67 ×\times 102 m
D) 2.53 ×\times 103 m
E) Not enough information is given to answer this question.

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