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suppose an asteroid had an orbit with a semimajor axis of 4 au. how long would it take for it to orbit once around the sun?

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8 years

Step-by-step explanation:

The orbital period of any object is the time taken by the object to complete one revolution on in that orbit. The Kepler's third law explains the orbital time period by relating it with the semimajor axis of that orbit.

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