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Transcribed Image Text:You find yourself stranded on Phobos, a moon of Mars, has a radius of 11.1 x 10' m and a mass of 1.07 x 10 kg. You decide to pass the
time by playing a one-person game of baseball. You would be the pitcher as well as the batter. With what speed would you have to throw
a baseball horizontally so that it would go into a circular orbit just above the surface of Phobos and return to her so you could hit it?
O 11.3 m/s
9.81 m/s
O 15.4 m/s.
8.01 m/s
O 4.32 m/s

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