What Does Kepler's Third Law of Planetary Motion Mean?

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Can someone explain keplar's third law of planetary motion to me without the math and not to technically, just what does it mean?
 
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The square of the time period of a planet's orbit (i.e. the square of the time the planet takes to orbit the sun) is proportional to the cube of the average distance between the planet and the sun.