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As astronaut orbiting the earth in a circular orbit 120 km above the surface of Earth, gently drops a spoon out of space-ship. The spoon will ……….

(a) fall vertically down to the Earth 

(b) move towards the moon 

(c) will move along with space-ship 

(d) will move in an irregular way then fall down to Earth.

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(c) will move along with space-ship

The velocity of the spoon will be equal to the orbital velocity when dropped out of the spaceship

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