Saturn's moon Paaliaq was discovered by a Canadian-led team in 2000. It has a semimajor axis of 15,000,000 km. What is its orbital period around Saturn, in Earth days? You will need to use the gravitational constant, G = 6.67 x 10-¹¹ m³ kg-¹ s², and the mass of Saturn, 5.68 x 1026 kg
Saturn's moon Paaliaq was discovered by a Canadian-led team in 2000. It has a semimajor axis of 15,000,000 km. What is its orbital period around Saturn, in Earth days? You will need to use the gravitational constant, G = 6.67 x 10-¹¹ m³ kg-¹ s², and the mass of Saturn, 5.68 x 1026 kg
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Transcribed Image Text:Saturn's moon Paaliaq was discovered by a Canadian-led team in 2000. It has a semimajor axis
of 15,000,000 km. What is its orbital period around Saturn, in Earth days? You will need to use
the gravitational constant, G = 6.67 x 10-¹¹ m³ kg-¹ s2, and the mass of Saturn, 5.68 x 10²26 kg
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