An alien spaceship is revolving around a spherical asteroid in a very low circular orbit. The period of revolutions of the satellite is 15.0 minutes. A research party of the alien students lands on the asteroid and drills a tunnel through it along the diameter. They then launch a rock into the tunnel with the initial speed equal to that of the orbiting spaceship. How long would it be before the rock comes back to the launch point?
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