Question

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You are a NASA Astrophysicist who just discovered a new comet! Using the information below name your comet and complete the table below for the comet you discovered.

Answer 1

Answer:T =60.19 years

Step-by-step explanation:

You will be using Kepler's third law since both the comet and the earth are rotating around the sun we can say.

`((T comet)^2)/((r comet)^3) =((T earth)^2)/(r earth^3)`

T earth= 1 year

R earth = 1 AU

We can now solve for T comet we get (1 year) ^2* (15.36 AU) ^3/ (1 Au)^3

Which will give you 60.19 years

The question also tells you T^2 = R^3 so you can just cube 15.36 and that is R^3 and T^2 must equal that. Then take the square root to find T.

Hope this helps