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A new planet is discovered orbiting a star with a mass 3.5 ´ at a distance of 1.2 . Assume that the orbit is circular. What is the orbital period of the planet?

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According to Kepler's third law the orbital period is 7.20.

What is Kepler's 3rd law?

Kepler's third law states that the square of a planet's orbital period (T²) is directly proportional to the cube of its average distance from the Sun (R³). Furthermore, the ratio between T² and R³ has exactly the same magnitude for all the stars that orbit this star.

"The ratio of the square of the period to the cube of the mean radius of a planet's orbit is constant.""

[tex]\frac{T^{2} }{R^{3} } = CONSTANT[/tex]

With this information, we can conclude that according to Kepler's third law the orbital period is 7.20.

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