If You Found an Exoplanet Whose Mass Was the Same $\odot$

question 85

Multiple Choice

If you found an exoplanet whose mass was the same as Jupiter's, but the planet orbited its star with a period of 2 years and a semimajor axis of 1 AU, what would be the mass of its star? For reference, Jupiter has a semimajor axis of 5.4 AU and an orbital period of 12 years.

• A) 0.25 M _\(\odot\)
• B) 0.5 M _\(\odot\)
• C) 2.0 M _\(\odot\)
• D) 1.5 M _\(\odot\)
• E) not enough information available to answer

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