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book Introduction to Flight 7th Edition by John Anderson cover

Introduction to Flight 7th Edition by John Anderson

Edition 7ISBN: 978-0073380247
book Introduction to Flight 7th Edition by John Anderson cover

Introduction to Flight 7th Edition by John Anderson

Edition 7ISBN: 978-0073380247
Exercise 4
It is known that the period of revolution of the earth about the sun is 365.3 days and that the semimajor axis of the earth's orbit is 1.495 × 10 11 m. An astronormer notes that the period of a distant planet is 29.7 earth years. What is the semimajor axis of the distant planet's orbit? Check in a reference source (encyclopedia, online, or the like) what planet of the solar system this might be.
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Kepler's third law relates, the time per...

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