orbital period in years

Q: Which scientist is credited with the collection of data necessary to support the planet's elliptical…

A: The astronomer Tycho Brahe made a series of observations regarding the motion of planets. Kepler,…

Q: Which of the following is NOT one of Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion? A. The square of a planet's…

A: According to Kepler's first law, Planetary orbits are elliptical with sun as a focus. So, option D…

Q: The figure below shows a planet traveling in a clockwise direction on an elliptical path around a…

A: It is mentioned the planet is rotating in a clockwise direction. With the help of figure and…

Q: Tycho Brahe's observations of the stars and planets were accurate to about 1 arc minute. To what…

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Q: Newton showed that the periods and distances in Kepler’s third law depend on the masses of the…

A: We know that Kepler's 3rd Law: The square of the period(T) of a planet's orbit is proportional to…

Q: A planet with mass 8.07x1023 kg orbits a star with mass 1.18x1030 kg. The orbit is circular, and the…

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Q: Planet X orbits the star Omega with a "year" that is 650 earth days long. Planet Y circles Omega at…

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Q: Why doesn't Earth's rotation provide a suitable time standard?

A: The earth's rotation serves as the foundation for time. Two things will have an impact on the…

Q: A planet with mass 4.83x1023 kg orbits a star with mass 6.95x1030 kg. The orbit is circular, and the…

A: Given Mass of the star is M=6.95×1030 kg Universal gravitational constant is G=6.67×10-11 N.m2/kg2…

Q: Many people mistakenly believe that astronauts that orbit the Earth are "above gravity." Calculate…

A: We know the equation,g = GM/R2

Q: The radius of the Earth's orbit is 1.50  1011 m and that of Mars is 2.28  1011 m. The star that this…

A: The expression for the orbital period,

Q: What does Kepler's third law predict for the period of an Asteroid's orbit around the Sun? Give your…

A: Given data: The value of gravitational constant is G=6.67x10-11 N-m2/kg2. The mass of the asteroid…

Q: A rocket is designed to be launched to space with an acceleration defined by the equation given…

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Q: From a distance of 300 km above the surface of the Moon, what is the angular diameter in arc seconds…

A: Given data: Distance above the surface of the Moon, d=300 km=300×103m Linear diameter, x=0.80 m…

Q: A rocket is designed to be launched to space with an acceleration defined by the equation given…

A: We have the acceleration of the rocket which is given by a=-9.81[R2/(R+y)2] where R=6400 km is the…

Q: The first proof that the Earth orbits the Sun was provided by   A)  Tycho's observations…

A: The first proof that the Earth orbits the Sun was provided by Galileo's observation of the phases of…

Q: An unknown planet (mass is equal to 2.46x 10^29 kg) is orbiting around the sun (mass of the sun is…

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Q: If a NASA probe orbits a planet every 1.4 hrs, and its orbit is 11,696.5 km from the center of the…

A: Given, a NASA probe orbits a planet every t=1.4 hrs=1.4×3600=5040 s, and its orbit (circular) is of…

Q: In analyzing distances by applying the physics of gravitational forces, an astronomer has obtained…

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Q: Scientists discover a new planet orbiting a distant star. They observe that it takes 1,460 days for…

A: The average distance from planet X to the star is  2.52 × 10^5 m

Q: The arch of a bridge is on the shape of a semi- ellipse having a horizontal span of 94 m and a…

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Q: A person's weight W varies inversely as the second power of the distance d from the center of a…

A: As weight varies inversely as the second power of the distance d from centre of the planet we can…

Q: Which of the following statements is correct regarding Kepler's three laws of planetary motion?…

A: Let's check each option one by one Angular momentum of any planet about an axis through the sun and…

Q: The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth once every 7.34 hours. If the radius of the…

A: Gravitational force on ISS by the Earth provides required centripetal force for circular motion of…

Q: Two stars of the same 10*30 kg mass orbit each other at a constant 10*13 meters apart. What is the…

A: The orbital period of the two stars is, T=2πr3GM Here, r is the distance between the stars, G is the…

Q: Find the distance that the earth travels in one day in its path around the sun. Assume that a year…

A: Given data, Earth has a year of 365 days  Earth moving in a circle around the sun whose radius is 93…

Q: Assuming that Earth's orbit around the Sun is a circle of radius 150 million kilometres, and taking…

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Q: If Jupiter is 5.2 times farther from the sun then earth is. What is the orbital period of Jupiter in…

A: The situation of the planets is shown below. The distance of Jupiter is 5.2 times the distance of…

Q: Predict the time for Mars to orbit around the Sun if the orbital distance of Mars is1.52 times of…

A: Kepler's third law or Law of periods will give the relationship between the period of an orbiting…

Q: The Earth’s radius is about 6370 km. An object that has a mass of 80 kg is taken to a height of 200…

A: Given that an object of mass 80 kg is taken to a height of 200 km from surface of Earth. Te mass of…

Q: The planet Jupiter rotates every 9.9 hours and has a diameter of 88 846 miles. If you’re standing on…

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Q: The major axis of the elliptical path in which the earth moves aroundthe sun is approximately…

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Q: Planet X has 20 times the mass of the earth and four times the earth's radius. It orbits star Y at a…

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Q: Planet Smilner circles its star at a distance of 4.76 x 10° km once every 229 Earth years. The…

A: Given: r1 = 4.76 x 109 km = 4.76 x 1012 m T1 = 229 Earth years r2 = 18.7 x 109 km = 18.7 x 1012 m

Q: An unknown planet (mass is equal to 1.29 x 10^12 kg) is orbiting around the sun (mass of the sun is…

A: Mass of the the planet is M1=1.29×1012 kg Mass of the sun is M2=6.623703×1035 kg Gravitational force…

Q: f a planet has an average distance from the Sun of 6.0 AU, what is its orbital period? years

A: To solve this question we need to use Kepler's third law of planetary motion, which state that…

Q: According to Kepler's Law, which of the following statements is true? Explain your work! (a)…

A: solution is given as

Q: The average distance from Earth to the Moon is about 3.84 x 10 to the 5th power and the distance…

A: The average distance from Earth to Moon is, dE,Mo=3.84×105 km The average distance from Earth to…

Q: One full year is 365.26 days. Using this number and the distance between the sun and the earth,…

A: T = 365.26 days

Q: The average distance between Earth and the Sun is 1.5×1011m.1.5×1011m. (a) Calculate the average…

A: Distance between earth and sun=1.5×1011 m Time period to completed 1 revolution around sun  = 365.25…

Q: Using the m, = 1.99 x 1030 kg and the mę = 5.98 x 1024 kg and the distance between them as 1.00 AU…

A: The expression for the orbital time period of an object around the Sun is written as, Here, G, Ms,…

Q: Kepler's third law of planetary motion describes a relationship between... the distance from the Sun…

A: Solution:  Kepler's first law of planetary motion describes the shape of the orbit of every planet…