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If suddenly the gravitational force of attraction between the earth and a satellite revolving around it becomes zero what will happen to the satellite?

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If the gravitational force of the earth suddenly becomes zero, the satellite will stop revolving around the earth and it will move in a direction tangential to its original orbit with a speed with which it was revolving around the earth.
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