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nelaaney

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on: Jul 27, 2018
The size of the Earth's orbit is doubled. This will allow the parallaxes of more distant stars to be measured.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

Explain how Kepler's laws allow us to use the motion of an asteroid to find its average distance from the Sun.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

TRUE

Answer to Question 2

By watching it long enough to find its period of revolution around the Sun, we can use Kepler's third law to get the average distance by squaring the period in years, then finding the cube root of this value for the average distance of the asteroid from the Sun in astronomical units.


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