A comet orbits the Sun in 4,063 years. What is its average orbital distance from the...
A comet orbits the Sun every 8.67 years and reaches its closest distance to the Sun at 0.68 AU in its orbit. What would its aphelion be? Round your answer to 3 decimal places in normal decimal format in units of AU.
A dwarf planet with an average orbital distance of 4.14 x 10° kilometers is kept in its orbit by 6.94 x 101 Newton force exerted on it by the Sun. MSun = 1.99 x 1030 kg. MFarth 5.97 x 1024 kg. What is the mass of that planet? kilograms (use scientific notation and round the coefficient to two decimals). A. В. How many Earth masses is that equivalent to? (use scientific notation and round the coefficient to two decimals). An...
The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is defined as one "astronomical unit" (AU). An asteroid orbits the Sun in one-third of a year. What is the asteroids average distance from the Sun? 0.19 AU 0.43 AU o 21 AU 5.2 AU Many comets orbit the Sun in highly elliptical orbits. What happens over time to the comet's angular momentum? It continually increases. It continually decreases. It remains constant It increases during some parts of the orbit and...
In a newly discovered exoplanetary system one planet orbits its star in 56 days with an average orbital radius of 107,588,122 kilometers. It is observed that another planet in the same system has orbital period of 373 days. What is its average orbital radius of the second planet? Express your answer in kilometers, use scientific notation and round the coefficient to two decimals. In a newly discovered exoplanetary system one planet orbits its star in 57 days with an average...
A comet orbits the Sun with a period of 67.41 years. The comet’s distance of closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is 1.239 AU. What is the maximum distance of the comet from the Sun (aphelion)? Give your answer in AU.
Venus orbits the Sun with a period of 0.6152 years. What is its average distance (in AU) from the Sun? (Round your answer to at least four significant figures.)
The orbit of a 1.5 ✕ 1010 kg comet around the Sun is elliptical, with an aphelion distance of 33.0 AU and perihelion distance of 0.850 AU. (Note: 1 AU = one astronomical unit = the average distance from the Sun to the Earth = 1.496 ✕ 1011 m.) (a)What is its orbital eccentricity? (b)What is its period? (Enter your answer in yr.) (c)At aphelion what is the potential energy (in J) of the comet—Sun system?
(1) Halley's Comet and Kepler's Laws: Halley's Comet orbits the Sun every 76.0 years. Its elliptical orbit has an eccentricity of 0.97. Using that information and the Kepler material in Math Insight Box 3.2 (p.70) and Figures 3.16, 3.17 and 3.18: 40 points total] (a) Find the comet's average distance from the Sun (semimajor axis, a) (b) Find its closest and furthest distances from the Sun: the Perihelion & Aphelion distances.
A comet orbits the sun at an average distance of about 13.6 astronomical units (AU). Based on the Kepler's third of planetary motion. Determine when we will see this comet next time if it was last seen in 2020?
A comet (see the figure below) approaches the Sun to within 0.570 AU, and its orbital period is 76.6 yr. (AU is the symbol for astronomical unit, where 1 AU = 1.50 x 1011 m is the mean Earth-Sun distance.) How far from the Sun will the comet travel before it starts its return journey? 34.75 The comet moves in an ellipse. What equation relates the period of motion to the size of the ellipse? AU Sun 0.570 AU —2a-...