Imagine that a new asteroid is discovered in the solar system with a circular orbit and an orbital period of 5 years. What is the average distance of this object from the Sun in Earth units?
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Step 1: Use Kepler's third law, which states that the square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. Show more…
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