Mission to Titan. On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe

Chapter 13, Problem 46P

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Mission to Titan. On December 25, 2004, the ?Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn and began a 22-day journey to Saturn’s giant moon Titan, on whose surface it landed. Besides the data in Appendix F, it is useful to know that Titan is 1.22 X 106 km from the center of Saturn and has a mass of 1.35 X 1023 kg and a diameter of 5150 km. At what distance from Titan should the gravitational pull of Titan just balance the gravitational pull of Saturn?

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