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Your spaceship lands on an unknown planet. To determine the characteristics of t

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Question

Your spaceship lands on an unknown planet. To determine the characteristics of this planet, you drop a 1.30kg wrench from 5.50m above the ground and measure that it hits the ground 0.811 slater. You also do enough surveying to determine that the circumference of the planet is 6.32

Your spaceship lands on an unknown planet. To determine the characteristics of this planet, you drop a 1.30kg wrench from 5.50m above the ground and measure that it hits the ground 0.811 slater. You also do enough surveying to determine that the circumference of the planet is 6.32 x 10^4 km Part A What is the mass of the planet, in kilograms? Part B Express the planet?s mass in terms of the earth?s mass.

Explanation / Answer

1.

Radius of the planet is,

              R = C/2(pi) = 6.32