The star 51 Pegasi has about the same mass as ourSun. A planet discovered orbiting it has an orbital period of4.95 days. The mass of the planet is estimated to be 0.64 timesthe mass of Jupiter. Use Kepler’s third law to find the planet’saverage distance (semimajor axis) from its star.

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