8. Centripetal Forces & Gravitation
Overview of Kepler's Laws
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Problem 6.71
Textbook Question
Textbook QuestionAstronomers have observed an otherwise normal star, called S2, closely orbiting an extremely massive but small object at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy called SgrA. S2 moves in an elliptical orbit around SgrA with a period of 15.2 yr and an eccentricity e = 0.87 (Fig. 6–17). In 2002, S2 reached its closest approach to SgrA, a distance of only 123 AU ( 1 AU = 1.50 x 10¹¹m is the mean Earth–Sun distance). Determine the mass m of SgrA, the massive compact object (believed to be a supermassive black hole) at the center of our Galaxy. State m in kg and in terms of the mass of our Sun.
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