3. Captain Janeway is preparing to leave a planet with a mass of 4.50 x 1025...
A landing craft with mass 12,500 kg is in a circular orbit 6.75×105 m above the surface of a planet. The period of the orbit is 5200 s. The astronauts in the lander measure the diameter of the planet to be 9.60×10^6m. The lander sets down at the north pole of the planet. What is the weight w of an 85.6 kg astronaut as he steps out onto the planet's surface?
A) A planet has a radius of 4400 kilometers. It also has a mass of 4.32 × 1024 kilograms. What is the surface gravity of this planet? __________ m/s2 B) A satellite is in a circular orbit around this planet at an altitude of 308 kilometers. How fast is it moving? _______ Km/s c) What is the period of the satellite's orbit? ________ seconds D) How fast would this spacecraft have to move to achieve escape velocity? ________ km/s
3) Consider the planet Mercury which has mass 3.34 x1023 kg, radius 2.44x10 m, semimajor axis 5.79x1010 m, and eccentricity .206. a) What is the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of Mercury? b) What is the escape velocity from the surface of Mercury? c) Calculate the force exerted on Mercury by the sun at its perihelion and appihelion. d) What are the perihelion and appihelion velocities of Mercury? e) What is Mercury's angular momentum at these two locations?...
5. [2pt] The small spherical planet called Glob has a mass of 7.80x1018 kg and a radius of 6.20x104 m). A 27.0 kg satellite is in a circular orbit around the planet at a height of 1.40x105 m above the planet's surface. Calculate the speed of the satellite. Answer: Submit Al Answers
QUESTION 11 Lyret is a fictional planet with a mass of 4.08 x 1025 kg and radius 9.29 x 106m. What is the escape velocity o break free of the gravitational attraction of Lyret?
A projectile is launched from the surface of a planet (mass = 15 x 1024 kg, radius = R = 10.0 x 106 m). What minimum launch speed is required if the projectile is to rise to a height of 5R above the surface of the planet? Disregard any dissipative effects of the atmosphere. Put your answer in km/s. Equation Sheet Chabay Equation Sheet Serway Answer: 1231 * You could also be asked about the escape energy or escape velocity....
I need part C please PHY2053 Test II Problem III: Mass of Planet. A satellite has a mass of 6000 kg and is in a circular orbit 4.0x10 m above the surface of a planet A. The period of the orbit is two hours. The radius of the planet is 4.6x10* m. Determine the following quantities: a· The orbital speed of the satellite, 1 2Tie-y (ot-4.onorm) ,43.3 mis」 V : , 1 12 b. The Mass of the planet A...
Suppose that you have a planet in a circular orbit about a star with the mass of the Sun. The orbital speed is 141 km/s. If you could increase the planet’s speed, what speed would you need to make it to escape the gravitational pull of its parent star?
Planet-X has a mass of 5.46x1024 kg and a radius of 5550 km. What is the First Cosmic Speed i.e. the speed of a satellite on a low lying circular orbit around this planet? (Planet-X doesn't have any atmosphere.) Submit Answer Tries 0/12 What is the Second Cosmic Speed i.e. the minimum speed required for a satellite in order to break free permanently from the planet? Submit Answer Tries 0/12 If the period of rotation of the planet is 14.7...
Planet Ukbar has the mass 6e+22 kg and radius 4000000 m. You are planning an orbiter to be on a circular orbit around Ukbar. If the radius of this orbit to be 70000000 m, The speed of the orbiter should be-------- m/s The period of the orbiter will be ---------- h In order to start returning home, what speed will the orbiter have to reach to escape Ukbars orbit? --------- m/s