While working with part of a research team you discover a set of exoplanets in a nearby star system. One of the planets is much closer to its mother star than the other and because of this you are able to determine the average radius of the closer planets orbit to be 37.26 x 10 to the 6 kilometers the Planet complete one orbit every 53.4 days. a) what is the mass of the star in this system?

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While working with part of a research team you discover a set of exoplanets in a nearby star system. One of the planets is much closer to its mother star than the other and because of this you are able to determine the average radius of the closer planets orbit to be 37.26 x 10 to the 6 kilometers the Planet complete one orbit every 53.4 days.

a) what is the mass of the star in this system?

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