Q. According to Kepler’s Laws, the cube of the mean distance of a planet from the Sun is proportional to the
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The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit That’s Kepler’s third law.
The other two are the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the Sun at a focus, and a line between a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times.
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