Calculate the Sun's orbital period.
Q: Dione, a moon of Saturn, has an orbital radius of 377,400 km, and an orbital period of about 2.737…
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Q: Satellite #1 and Satellite #2 are both in circular orbits around the Earth. The radius of Satellite…
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A: 1. Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object with respect to the background, because of a…
Q: Mars circles the Sun once every 687 days, and Saturn circles the Sun once every 29.6 years. As…
A: Which goes for longer between oppositions.
Q: Calculate the orbital period for a planet that is 4 AU from the Sun.
A: The orbital period of a planet around the Sun is the time taken to complete one full revolution…
Q: Average distance from Mars to the Sun: 1.524 x 106 A) using the fact that the sun subtends an angle…
A: Given: The average distance from Mars to Sun: r=1.524×106 km The angle= θ=0.5°
Q: An asteroid orbits the Sun in 4.7 (Earth) Years. What is its average distance from the Sun (in AU)?…
A: Given data: Time period T = 4.7 years
Q: Calculate the period T of a planet whose orbit has a semimajor axis of 4.9 AU
A: To determine: The time period of the planet Given: Semi-major axis of the planet is, 4.9 AU
Q: An object takes 6.5 years to orbit the Sun. What is its average distance (in AU) from the Sun?
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Q: Asteroid X in the Solar System has a semimajor axis of 3.25 AU and an orbital period that is 125…
A: According to Kepler's 3 rd law of planetary motion the square of time period (T) is directly…
Q: Calculate the period T of a planet whose orbit has a semimajor axis of 20 AU.
A: It is given that,
Q: How is Kepler's law different from Newton's law of motion
A: Newton’s law describe every motion you will ever experience. You can use them to calculate anything…
Q: Use the ellipse tool to draw Earth’s orbit (e = 0.02, a = 1 AU). What are the closest and farthest…
A: given information:Consider Sun-Earth system, Sun is situated at one of the foci of the ellipse and…
Q: If a planet is 100 astronomical units from the sun, how long would it take to orbit the earth?
A: We have the distance of the planet from the sun D=100 AU According to the Kepler's 3rd law of…
Q: What is the approximate angular seperation between the star Antares and the moon? 15 degrees 30…
A: Antares has the brightest light and it is far away from earth. It is called red supergiant star and…
Q: Name the planets in order, starting with the planet closest to the Sun.
A: Solar system contain 8 planets orbits around Sun in their own elliptical orbits keeping Sun at one…
Q: Venus has an average distance to the sun of 0.723 AU. How do you calculate the orbital period of…
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Q: Calculate the period T of a planet whose orbit has a semimajor axis of 40 AU.
A: T2=ka3T is the period in earth yearsa is the length of semimajor axis in astronomical units
Q: Q.4. The angular diameter of the sun from earth is 16 minute. If the distance of earth from the sun…
A: Given data, Angle is given θ=16 min=1660×π1800=0.00465 radian
Q: Two 700-kg masses (1543 lb) are separated by a distance of 76 m. Using Newton's law of gravitation,…
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Q: According to Kepler's second law, what is true about all of the sections ("gray and white pie…
A: Kepler's second law of planetary motion states that the line between the Sun and the planet sweeps…
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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: Calculate the period T of a planet whose orbit has a semimajor axis of 6.7 AU.
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Q: Calculate the period T of a planet whose orbit has a semi major axis of 15 AU.
A: Given the semi major axis of the orbit is a= 15 AU.
Q: Determine what the period of revolution of the Earth would be if its distance from the sun would be…
A: Let R1 = 1 AU and R2 = 4 AU period of revolution when the distance of the earth…
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- The fictional asteroid Lilliput orbits around the Sun one time every 3.605 Earth years. What is the average distance for Lilliput away from the Sun in astronomical units (AU)? One astronomical unit is equal to the average distance the Earth is away from the Sun, 1.496x1011m. The mass of the Sun is 1.989x1030kg.Calculate the period T of a dwarf planet whose orbit has a semimajor axis of 250 AU.The average distance of the planet Mercury from the sun is 0.39 times the average distance of the earth from the sun.How long is a year on Mercury in units of earth years?___ earth years
- Why are all large celestial bodies (stars, planets, larger moons) very nearly spherical in shape? a because of the centrifugal force from the body's rotation b because of tidal forces c because gravity tries to pull every part of the celestial body to the center d because of the pressure from the heat in the body's coreTonight you see a waning crescent in the night sky. A few (n) days later, the night is once again clear and you see a waning crescent. How many degrees did the Moon advance in its orbit during this time frame?Find the ratio of the mass of Jupiter to that of Earth based on data in Table .
- Solve the following problem: Two stars, named A and B, each with a mass equal to the Sun's mass are in orbit around each other. If the distance between the two stars is 1.0 AU. What is the period of their orbit? Describe each step in solving the problem:Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos orbits Mars at a distance of 9380 km from Mars’s center, while Deimos orbits at 23,500 km from the center. What is the ratio of the orbital period of Deimos to that of Phobos?A planet in a circular orbit about a star has an orbital radius of 3.70 au . If the star has a mass that is 1.80 times our own Sun's mass, determine the time ? , in units of Earth years, for one revolution of the planet around the star.T = ? Earth years