Kepler's Third Law
8. Centripetal Forces & Gravitation / Kepler's Third Law / Problem 8
A satellite is orbiting a strange space rock at a distance of 3.5 billion km from Earth. The space rock has a mass of and can be modeled as a sphere with a radius of . The satellite orbits at an altitude of 4.0 km above the surface of the space rock. Find the orbital period of the satellite about the space rock.
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