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If suddenly the gravitational force of attraction between Earth and a stellite revolving around it becomes zero, then the stellite will

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If the gravitational force of attraction of Earth suddenly becomes zero, the satellite will stop revolving around the Earth. Now the satellite will move in a direction tangent to its orbital path with a speed with which it was moving around the Earth under the gravity effect.
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