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I meant your satellite and planet are moving, hence gravity is a bit behind your actual location due to a speed limit on gravitational waves propagation, i.e. each part of the planet is contributing gravitational force at different times from the past. Something like when you make a photo of a nebula roughly 700ly away and the top of nebula is 698ly away from you whereas the bottom is 705ly - what you get in the picture are pixels from different times, not a single time snapshot of the nebula.


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