According to Kepler's third law of planetary motion, the mean distance D, in millions of miles, from a planet in our solar system to the sun is related to the time P, in years, that it takes for the planet tocomplete a revolution around the sun, and the relationship isD =93P2/3It takes the planet Pluto 248 years to complete a revolution around the sun. What is the mean distance from Pluto to the sun? What is the mean distance from Earth to the sun? Give your answers to thenearest million miles.from Pluto to the sunX million milesfrom Earth to the sunmillion miles

Time of pluto complete the revolution = 248 light years So above formula mean distance between…

It takes the planet Pluto 248 years to complete a revolution around the sun. What is the mean distance from Pluto to the sun? What is the mean distance from Earth to the sun? Give your answers to the nearest million miles. from Pluto to the sun x million miles from Earth to the sun million miles

It takes the planet Pluto 248 years to complete a revolution around the sun. What is the mean distance from Pluto to the sun? What is the mean distance from Earth to the sun? Give your answers to the nearest million miles. from Pluto to the sun x million miles from Earth to the sun million miles

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According to Kepler's third law of planetary motion, the mean distance D, in millions of miles, from a planet in our solar system to the sun is related to the time P, in years, that it takes for the planet to
complete a revolution around the sun, and the relationship is
D =
93P2/3
It takes the planet Pluto 248 years to complete a revolution around the sun. What is the mean distance from Pluto to the sun? What is the mean distance from Earth to the sun? Give your answers to the
nearest million miles.
from Pluto to the sun
X million miles
from Earth to the sun
million miles

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