question?

[jaypee]

Does anyone know what would be the approximate orbital period (time for one complete orbit) for an apple placed in orbit around Earth at the moon’s distance from Earth?

[russ_watters]

Orbital period depends strictly on distance (for relatively small objects). The apple would have the same period as the moon.

[Loren Booda]

GMEarthmapple or Moon/(RMoon)2=mapple or Moon(vorbital)2/RMoon

so vorbital is the same for both Moon and apple, since mapple or Moon cancels (Newtonian approximation as Russ pointed out), and Porbital=(2[pi]RMoon)/vorbital