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A Saturn year is 29.5 times the earth year.How far is the Saturn from the sun if the earth is 1.50 ×108 km away from thesun?



Answer -

Distance of the Earth from the Sun, re = 1.5 × 108 km = 1.5 × 1011 m

Time period of the Earth = e

Time period of Saturn, Ts = 29. 5 Te

Distance of Saturn from the Sun = rs

From Kepler’s third law ofplanetary motion, we have

For Saturn and Sun, we canwrite

Hence, the distance between Saturn and the Sunis

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