A research team has discovered that a moon is circling a planet of our solar system: The moonorbits the planet once every 7 hours on a nearly circular orbit in a distance R of 48000 km fromthe centre of the planet. Unfortunately, the mass m of the moon is not known. Use Newton's lawof gravitation with G = 6.67 · 10-1" m³/(kg-s²) to approach the following questions:mMF = G.R?(1)(a) Based on the observations, determine the total mass M of the planet.(b) Which moon and planet of our solar system is the team observing? (Use literature.)

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