A group of scientists is trying to launch an object into orbit, and the object is traveling at 6500 m/s Which best explains why the object will not successfully orbit Earth?

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The object is not traveling fast enough to match Earth’s curvature.

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A group of scientists is trying to launch an object into orbit, and the object is traveling at 6500 m/s Which best explains why the object will not successfully orbit Earth?

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