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Astronomy - Orbit length and Oribital Period of the moon to Mass of the Larger planet

 
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Sep15-08, 08:55 PM   #1
 

Astronomy - Orbit length and Oribital Period of the moon to Mass of the Larger planet


This question has been stumping me on my Astronomy homework for the past couple of days. I've tried to input the question into any of the other formulae that we've studied, but I keep drawing a blank on it.

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Given the size of Triton's orbit(a = 355,000,000 meters) and its orbital period (P = 5.877 days), calculate the mass of Neptune.
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Sep15-08, 09:06 PM   #2
 
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Look up kepler's third law, it does include the mass of the moon but as long as this is much less than the mass of the planet it can be ignored.
Sep15-08, 09:13 PM   #3
 
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