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A satellite is in a circular orbit around Earth with a time period of 90 minutes. The radius of Earth is 6370 km, the mass of Earth is 5.98 x 1024 kg and the universal gravitational constant is 6.67 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2. The altitude of the satellite above mean sea level is _______ km. (round off to the nearest integer)

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