8.3 Suppose there existed a planet that went around the Sun twice as fast as the earth. What would be its orbital size as compared to that of the earth?

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Time taken by the Earth to complete one revolution around the Sun,  Te = 1 year

Orbital radius of the Earth in its orbit,  Re = 1 AU

Time taken by the planet to complete one revolution around the Sun,  Tp = 12Te = 12 year

Orbital radius of the planet = Rp

From Kepler's 3rd law of planetary motion, we can write:

RpRe)3 =

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