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As measured by an observer on the earth, be any difference in the periods of two satellites, each in a circular orbit near the earth in an equatorial Plane but one moving eastward and the other westward?

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The westward satellite will appear to have a shorter period than the eastward satellite, owing to the rotation of the earth itself from west to east.
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