(II) Every few hundred years most of the planets line up on the same side of the Sun. Calculate the total force on the Earth due to Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, assuming all four planets are in a line, Fig. 5-44. The masses are ту — 0.815 mЕ, Mу — 318 ТЕ, Msat — 95.1 тE, and the mean distances of the four planets from the Sun are 108, 150, 778, and 1430 million km. What fraction of the Sun's force on the Earth is this? 318 тE, MSat 95.1 mẸ, Venus Earth Sun Jupiter Saturn FIGURE 5-44 Problem 41 (not to scale).

(II) Every few hundred years most of the planets line up on the same side of the Sun. Calculate the total force on the Earth due to Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, assuming all four planets are in a line, Fig. 5-44. The masses are ту — 0.815 mЕ, Mу — 318 ТЕ, Msat — 95.1 тE, and the mean distances of the four planets from the Sun are 108, 150, 778, and 1430 million km. What fraction of the Sun's force on the Earth is this? 318 тE, MSat 95.1 mẸ, Venus Earth Sun Jupiter Saturn FIGURE 5-44 Problem 41 (not to scale).

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