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A geostationary satellite orbits the earth at a height of nearly `36,000km` from the surface of the earth. What is the potentional due to earth's gravity at the site of this sattelite? (Take the potential energy at infinity to be zero). Mass of the `earth=6×10^24kg`., radius of `earth=6,400km`.

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