The asteroid Hygiea orbits the Sun like the other planets. Its period is about 2030 days. What is its mean distance from the Sun?
The asteroid Hygiea orbits the Sun like the other planets. Its period is about 2030 days....
In recent years, scientists have discovered hundreds of planets orbiting other stars. Some of these planets are in orbits that are similar to that of earth, which orbits the sun (Msun = 1.99 × 1030 kg) at a distance of 1.50 × 1011 m, called 1 astronomical unit (1 au). Others have extreme orbits that are much different from anything in our solar system. The following problem relates to one of these planets that follows circular orbit around its star....
The asteroid belt circles the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. One asteroid has a period of 4.4 earth years. What is the asteroid's orbital radius?
A comet orbits the Sun in 4,063 years. What is its average orbital distance from the Sun? Express your answer in AU (enter "AU" for units) and round it to the nearest integer А. An asteroid orbits the Sun at an average orbital distance of 3.12 AU. What is its average orbital period? Express your answer in years (enter "years" for units) and round it to two decimals. В. A moon orbits a planet in 1.5 days. What is the...
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.)
Question 6: (a.) The asteroid Vesta orbits the Sun with a semi-major axis of 2.362 AU. It has a rotational period of about 5 hr 21 min and an albedo of 0.38 (unusually reflective for an asteroid). (a) Estimate Vesta's surface temperature (b) Estimate what Vesta's surface temperature would be if it were instead tidally locked with the Sun so that it always kept the same side facing the Sun. State at what point on the planet this temperature is...
Q5.7: An asteroid is in circular orbit around the Sun. Its distance from the Sun is 7.3 times the average distance of Earth from the Sun. The period of this asteroid is 20 Earth years A 7.3 Earth years 144 Earth years 53 Earth years 3.8 Earth years E
SCADO 10. A certain planet orbits the Sun with a period of 84 years. What is its distance from the Sun in Astronomical Units? (1 AU = the average distance between the Earth and the Sun)
The mean distance of an asteroid from the Sun is 4.10 times that of Earth from the Sun. From Kepler's law of periods, calculate the number of years required for the asteroid to make one revolution about the Sun. yr
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.
(a) An asteroid is in an elliptical orbit around a distant star. At its closest approach, the asteroid is 0.700 AU from the star and has a speed of 54.0 km/s. When the asteroid is at its farthest distance from the star of 36.0 AU, what is its speed (in km/s)? (1 AU is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun and is equal to 1.496 x 101 m. You may assume that other planets and smaller objects...