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Berkeman, your answer is very accurate — it indeed DEPENDS, and you have perfectly identified the two distinct situations. Now I'll add a detail I didn't mention in the original problem. Imagine three marbles released simultaneously: — Marble 1: released from the geostationary satellite at a...

I know g at that altitude is 0.221 m/s² but I'm not sure how to integrate the increasing gravitational acceleration as the object approaches Earth. I attempted using kinematic equations but g is not constant during the fall.