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Finding Orbit Sizes. The Doppler method allows us to find a planet’s semimajor axis using just the orbital period and the star’s mass (Cosmic Calculations 11.1).

  1. a. Imagine that a new planet is discovered orbiting a 2MSun star with a period of 5 days. What is its semimajor axis?
  2. b. Another planet is discovered orbiting a 0.5MSun star with a period of 100 days. What is its semimajor axis?
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