The problem involves determining the length of a year on Pluto using Kepler's third law of planetary motion. The original poster states that Pluto is 40 times further from the Sun than Earth and seeks to find Pluto's orbital period based on this information.
The discussion is ongoing, with participants providing hints and prompting further exploration of the concepts involved. There is a focus on clarifying the relationship between the distances and periods of the planets, but no consensus or resolution has been reached yet.
Participants note the importance of understanding the constant ratio of R^3/T^2 for planets orbiting the same star, as well as the specific distance relationship between Earth and Pluto. There is an indication that the original poster may have misunderstood some aspects of the problem setup.
estro said:Hint: For every planet [which goes around the sun] in our solar system R^3/T^2=constant.
Why?
D.J Falcon said:I've already made x a constant (T^2/r^3), in the attempt at a solution.
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