Projectile and Satellite Motion - Fgamedia.org
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Kepler’s Third Law<br />
• The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly<br />
proportional to the cube of the average distance of<br />
the planet from the Sun (T 2 ~r 3 for all planets)<br />
T<br />
2<br />
2<br />
⎛ 4π<br />
⎞<br />
3<br />
=<br />
⎜<br />
⎝ Gm<br />
sun<br />
⎟r<br />
⎠<br />
This is constant