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(It made me choose physics as the category, but the class is Astronomy) The Earth's Escape velocity, the velocity needed to escape the Earth's gravitational field, is<…

(It made me choose physics as the category, but the class is Astronomy) The Earth's Escape velocity, the velocity needed to escape the Earth's gravitational field, is<…
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(It made me choose physics as the category, but the class is Astronomy)

The Earth's Escape velocity, the velocity needed to escape the Earth's
gravitational field, is

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in order for an object or a projectile to leave Earth's gravitational pull, it must reach Earth's escape velocity, meaning reach a speed of 7 miles per second (~11 km per second).
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