Scientists have discovered a distant planet with a mass of 6.5x1023 kg. The planet has a small moon that orbits with a period of 5 hours and 15 minutes. Use only thisinformation (and the value of G) to calculate the radius of the moon's orbit (in units of 106 m).

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