This document discusses the general relativistic effect of time dilation caused by a spherically symmetric gravitational well. In particular we will examine the effect the earth's gravitational field has on the rate of the passage of time on objects, both on the surface and in orbit. For this document the earth is assumed to be a sphere and the satellite orbits are circular.
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