(A cash-balance plan, by contrast, allows you to take your money with you when you leave a job.). When you reach retirement age, you need to get back in touch with the folks who run the pension for your old company and apply for your benefit.
The satellites are pinpoint, while stars have created small trails due to the Earth's rotation. A geostationary orbit, geostationary Earth orbit or geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) is a circular orbit 35,786 kilometres (22,236 mi) above the Earth's equator and following the direction of the Earth's rotation.
Earth is ensnared today in a thick spider web of orbits. Satellites with different assignments fly at different altitudes: U.S. space shuttles are manned satellites of Earth. They usually fly at altitudes around 200 miles above Earth. Rarely, they fly near 400 miles altitude. Russia's orbiting space station Mir is another manned satellite. It maintains its own orbit just above 200 miles altitude. Russian and American navigation satellites guide ships at sea from 100 to 300 miles altitude.