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Their direction has no bearing on their speed. Objects stay in orbit because of the attraction of earths gravity which has nothing to do with the earth's rotation on it's axis. If objects go too fast they fly off into space, too slow and they fall back to earth. Orbiting is a balancing act between the objects speed trying to fling it away from the earth and gravity trying to pull it down.

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