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Technically, an object is in free fall when the only force acting on it is its own weight. Non-technically, people refer to objects falling through the atmosphere as being in free fall even though the force caused by the object's interaction with the atmosphere is working against its weight. Anything in orbit is in free fall, even though it can go for billions of years without ever "completing" its fall, due to its momentum.

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