21st Century Astronomy: The Solar System (Sixth Edition)
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Author: Laura Kay; Stacy Palen; George Blumenthal
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The chart shows the length of time for each planet, in Earth days, to make one complete
revolution around the Sun.
Orbital Period of Planets iY
the Solar System
Orbital Period
(Earth days)
88
225
365
687
4333
10 759
30 685
60 189
Planet
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Satum
Uranus
Neptune
Source: NASA
Use the data table above to compare the length of a year on Mars and Neptune. (HS-ESS1-4)
a. One year on Neptune is almost 100 times longer than a year on Mars.
b. One year on these two planets is nearly equal.
c. One year on Mars is almost 100 times longer than a year on Neptune.
d. One year these two planets is roughly equal to a year on Earth.
Use the data table above to determine which of the following statements is TRUE. (HS-ESS1-4)
a. There is no relationship between a planet's distance from the Sun and its length of
year.
b. The closer a planet is to the Sun, the longer the planet's year.
c. One year on all planets is about 365 days long.
d. The farther away a planet is from the…
Is it possible to put a satellite in a “geostationary” orbit around Venus? You can assume that Venus is spherical, that its sidereal day is 5832 hours, its mass is 4.867×1023 kg and that the radius of its Hill sphere is 1.0042x106 km (Hill sphere of a planet is the region in which it dominates the attraction of satellites, a satellite has to be inside that sphere to remain around the planet)
Orbital Radius and orbital period data for the four biggest moons of Jupiter are listed in the table below. The mass of the planet Jupiter is 1.9 × 1027 kg.
Jupiter's Moon
Period (s)
Radius (m)
T2/r3
Io
1.53×105
4.2×108
?
Europa
3.07×105
6.7×108
?
Ganymede
6.18×105
1.1×109
?
Callisto
1.44×106
1.9×109
?
What pattern do you observe in the last column of data? Which law of Kepler's does this seem to support?
Chapter 3 Solutions
21st Century Astronomy: The Solar System (Sixth Edition)
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