Question

what furnishes the centripetal force required to keep the satellite circling the earth?

Answer 1

What is the only force in play?

Answer 2

the force which is responsible for it

Answer 3

which keeps the speed constant

Answer 4

ignoring the fact that the satellite is in orbit, what is the force acting between the satellite and the earth?

Answer 5

or, more generally, what is the force that acts between any two masses, be it the earth, a hydrogen atom or anything else.

Answer 6

I'm thinking of the Universal Law of Gravitation. Hence the force that supplies the centripetal force is ___________.