This is a fixed satellite. The height of the fixed satellite is 36,000 km, and the radius of the earth is about 6,371km. It is conceivable that the angle of view of the earth from the satellite is ...

IN a paper entitled "The Story of Newton's Inverse Square Law and his Use of a False Radius of the Earth" (J. Brit. Astro. Assoc., 50, 2; 1939), John Miller states that the story of Newton's ...

It’s over 6,000C here - you were cooked long ago. The distance to the centre of the Earth has been taken as the volumetric mean radius of the Earth: 6,371km. Note that this distance and the ...