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A satellite of Earth is going around in an elliptical orbit. The smallest distance of the satellite from the centre of the earth happens to be 2R (where R = radius of the earth). ind the upper limit of the maximum speed of such a satellite.

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`sqrt(gR)=709km//s`
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