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... The rotating
coordinate system in which the earth's surface is at rest has a
cylindrical coordinate singularity at this distance from the rotation
axis, and it cannot be used for distances greater than that. (Objects
greater that this distance travel at speeds greater than c in this
coordinate system.) ....
David Bowman