If You Discovered a Planet Orbiting Another Star,and the Planet

question 57

Multiple Choice

If you discovered a planet orbiting another star,and the planet had an orbital period of 2 years and a semimajor axis of 1 AU,what would be the mass of its parent star? You can assume the planet's mass is much less than the star's mass.

• A)0.25 M_⨀
• B)0.5 M_⨀
• C)1.0 M_⨀
• D)1.25 M_⨀
• E)2.0 M_⨀

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