Edmond Halley was the first to realize that the comets observed in 1531, 1607, and 1682 were really one comet (now called Halley's Comet) that moved around the Sun in an elongated elliptical orbit as shown in (Figure 1). He predicted that the peanut-shaped comet would reappear in 1757. It appeared in March 1759 (attractions to Jupiter and Saturn delayed its trip by 618 days). More recent appearances of Halley's Comet were in 1835, 1910, and 1986. It is expected again in 2061.
The nucleus of Halley's Comet is relatively small (15 km long, 8 km wide, and 8 km thick). It has a low 2.2××1014kg14kg mass with an average density of about 600 kg/m3kg/m3. (The density of water is 1000 kg/m3kg/m3.) The nucleus rotates once every 52 hh. When Halley's Comet is closest to the Sun, temperatures on the comet can rise to about 77∘C∘C and several tons of gas and dust are emitted each second, producing the long tail that we see each time it passes the Sun.
Question: Suppose that instead of being peanut-shaped, Halley's Comet was spherical with a radius of 5km. Find a person's radial acceleration if he was standing on the "equator" of the rotating comet.
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This was somewhat helpful, but my radius is not 3.5km it's 5km. This is not the answer to my question, it is only similar to it. I can not interpret your handwriting to follow along to answer for my question.
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