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Assume a spacecraft is orbiting the earth at a constant radius of 7.00x10^3km. At t=0 a lateral rocket is fired that imparts an inward-directed radial velocity. What is the minimum radial velocity needed to produce a parabolic trajectory, and what will r_min be?

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