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Change in orbit when mass is doubled
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[QUOTE="Drakkith, post: 6848573, member: 272035"] Playing around in Universe Sandbox gave me the following: 1. An object orbiting Earth in a circular orbit at distance of 220,450 km. Semi-major axis, semi-minor axis, pericenter, and apocenter are all 220,450 km. 2. Doubling Earth's mass leaves the apocenter the same but changes the pericenter to 73,820 km, semi-major axis to 147,135 km, and semi-minor axis to 127,592 km. Dividing the old values by ##\sqrt{2}## or ##2\sqrt{2}## doesn't perfectly equal any of the new values, but they are close, so I don't know if its a rounding error or if the square root of two just doesn't come into play here. [/QUOTE]
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