8. Centripetal Forces & Gravitation
Kepler's Third Law
Problem 13.54b
Textbook Question
Textbook QuestionIn 2014, the European Space Agency placed a satellite in orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and then landed a probe on the surface. The actual orbit was elliptical, but we’ll approximate it as a 50-km-diameter circular orbit with a period of 11 days. (b) What is the mass of the comet?
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