What Is the Ratio of the Orbital Angular Momentum of the Earth

question 56

Multiple Choice

What is the ratio of the orbital angular momentum of the Earth compared to its spin angular momentum? Note that the Earth has a radius of 6,000 km,and 1 AU is 1.5 × 10¹¹ m.

• A) 70
• B) 640
• C) 25,000
• D) 4 million

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