A comet has an average distance from the sun of 8.2 AU. What is its time in years for it going around the sun?

Q: A comet goes around the sun in an elliptical orbit. At its farthest point, 345 million miles from…

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Q: Kepler’s First Law states that planetary orbits are ellipses with thesun at one focus. The orbit of…

A: The relation is  perihelion = a (1 - e)  aphelion  = a ( 1+e)

Q: If a fictitious planet has an average distance from the sun of 2.0 AU what is its orbital period

A: Using the Kepler's third law, P2=a3

Q: One 'day' on Planet X equals 16 Earth hours.A geostationary communications satellite orbits Planet X…

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Q: If G = 6.674 ⨉ 10 −11m3/kg/s 2and M Earth= 5.972 ⨉ 10 24kg and the sidereal period of the Earth is…

A: Given : Mass of Earth: 5.972×1024 kg G=6.674×10-11 m3/kg/s Period T=27.32 days

Q: Neptune circles the Sun at a distance of 4.30 x 10^12 m once every 164 yeras. Saturn circles the Sun…

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Q: Given: Distance of Venus to sun is 1.08×1011 m and the distance of mars to sun is 2.3x1011 m (688…

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Q: What is the orbital period of a planet with an average orbital distance of approximately 1000 AU…

A: The motion of the planet is uniform circular motion. Therefore, the force equation along radial…

Q: Saturn orbits the Sun at a distance of 9.58 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. How long…

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Q: A comet has an orbit about the Sun whose semi-major axis is 17 AU.  What is the period of its orbit?

A: The period (T) in years can be calculated using the relation given by Kepler's law. As semi major…

Q: A newly discovered planet orbits a star with the same mass as the Sun with a semi-major axis of…

A: Given data The semi-major axis is a=104.72×106 km The eccentricity is e=0.8   The semi-major axis in…

Q: A comet has an average distance from the sun of 2.3 AU. What is its time in years for it going…

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Q: A satellite placed in a circular orbit at a radius of 1.5 earth radii (z ~ 3,185 km) has an orbital…

A: Given that: Radius of orbit: r=1.5Re=1.5×6370×106 mSatellite must be atleast 15° above horizontal to…

Q: Given: Distance of Venus to sun is 1.08×1011 m and the distance of mars to sun is 2.3x1011 m (688…

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Q: Calculate the altitude needed for a circular, geosynchronous orbit (an orbit whose orbital period…

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Q: A comet has an orbit about the Sun whose semi-major axis is 21 AU.  What is the period of its orbit?

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Q: 2 Jupiter is 4.52 AU away from the sun. What is the orbital period of Jupiter in Earth years?

A: To solve this problem we have to use Kepler's law.

Q: Let's assume that the Earth is orbiting around something with the 1/100th mass of our Sun (the mass…

A: The mass of the earth is The mass of Sun is The orbital distance is

Q: The radius of the Earth's orbit is 1.50  1011 m and that of Mars is 2.28  1011 m. The star that this…

A: The expression for the orbital period,

Q: t has an average distance from the sun of 8.2 AU. What is its time in years for it going around the…

A: Given:- an average distance from the sun of 8.2 AU. Find:- What is its time in years for it going…

Q: Using Kepler's 3rd law, how long will it take a new planet that is 3.68 x 107 km to travel around…

A: Using Kepler's 3rd law, how long will it take a new planet that is 3.68 x 107 km to travel around…

Q: Suppose a satellite (not the Moon) orbits Earth exactly every 30 days. Find its distance from Earth…

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Q: Asteroid Ondrea has a semi-major axis of 2.99 AU. What is Ondrea's orbital period in years about the…

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Q: How much distance is Mars from the Earth?

A: Distances in space is very large and can be expressed in the unit of Light Year. Since, it is known…

Q: How far from the sun would a planet that has made exactly one orbit circular in your lifetime be?

A: The average human life span is 80 years so we will use it as the time period of the planet.

Q: calculate the periof T of a planet whose orbit has semimajor axis of 10AU

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Q: A new planet is discovered in our solar system with an orbital semimajor axis 35.5 times that of the…

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Q: Calculate the period of a satellite orbiting the 97km above the Moon's surface. Ignore effects of…

A: Time period of the satellite is 7065 sec or 1.96 hour.

Q: Assume another planet is 10^8 million miles away from Earth. If an astronaut in the future can…

A: GIVEN:- a distance of another planet from the earth is 108 million miles.                 astronaut…

Q: to two decimal places): (what is ‘h’?)​Eccentricity of earth orbit is 0.0167​µ(sun) = 1.32712E+11…

A: a) To calculate the speed of the Earth around the sun at aphelion, we need to use the equation for…

Q: Determine what the period of the revolution of the earth would be if it's distance from the sun were…

A: Using Kepler’s third law,

Q: Another comet has an orbit about the sun whose semi-major axis is 12 AU, with an eccentricity of…

A: The closest distance of the comet from the Sun is known as its perihelion distance, whereas the…

Q: Apophis has an elliptical orbit about the Sun, with a perihelion distance of 0.746 AU and aphelion…

A: In the question it is given that  Apophis has an elliptical orbit about the Sun, with a perihelion…

Q: The orbit of a 1.9 x 1040 kg comet around the Sun is elliptical, with an aphelion distance of 25.0…

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Q: A comet has a period of 76.3 years and moves in an elliptical orbit in which its perihelion (closest…

A: GIVEN :             Time period = T = 76.3 yrs = 76.3 x 365days x 24hrs x 3600sec = 2406196800 secs…

Q: 2. If a 15 kg bowling ball is thrown down the alley with a force of 60 what is the acceleration? * O…

A: According to Newton's 2nd law of motion,  Force F acting on mass m moving with acceleration a is…

Q: A planet's orbit is described by the ellipse: y² (x-h)² a² where (all are in UAS): a =1.65, b=3.25 +…

A: Kepler was the scientist who gave 3 laws for planetary motion. Aphelion is the maximum distance…

Q: A newly discovered planet orbits a distant star with the same mass as the Sun at an average distance…

A: Given Mass of the distant star = Mass of the sun planet distance from star = 102 million kilometres…

Q: A science fiction author is writing a book where an artificial planet is constructed in our Solar…

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Q: Pretend the moons orbit around the earth is a perfect circle. How long does it take in unit of days…

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Q: The orbit of a 1.5 x 1010 kg comet around the Sun is elliptical, with an aphelion distance of 33.0…

A: The problem based on the concept of a two-body central force problem. According to Kepler's first…

Q: Ceres, the largest asteroid and a dwarf planet, has a semi-major axis of about 2.74 AU. What is…

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Q: Given: Distance of Venus to sun is 1.08×1011 m and the distance of mars to sun is 2.3x1011 m (688…

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Q: The solar system has a planet with an orbital period T1b=1.51d and an orbital radius of…

A: According to Kepler's first law , every planet revolves around sun in an elliptical orbit with sun…