Suppose a satellite were orbiting the Earth just above the surface. What is its centripetal acceleration?

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Newton's law of universal gravitation: Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distances between them. This force acts along the line joining the two particles.
 


Suppose a satellite were orbiting the Earth just above the surface. What is its centripetal acceleration?