• Mustakrakish@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Orbit is esspetially free falling past the side of the planet, fast enough that the force of gravity doesn’t completely pull you in. So you kind of fall past the planet, but get curved towards it enough you don’t go flying out away either. The minimum velocity to orbit around a planet with radius r and gravity g is Vorbit = √(rg) I believe