Hello!!!! I think this problem might be easy for me if I can just figureout if w

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Hello!!!! I think this problem might be easy for me if I can just figureout if we need to convert the 100 min to the revolutions/min....butI am not sure and I am stuck... A small satellite is 10,000km above the center of a planet andorbits it once in 100min. What is the mass of theplanet? (Assume the satellite’s mass is much less thanthe planet’s mass.) Hello!!!! I think this problem might be easy for me if I can just figureout if we need to convert the 100 min to the revolutions/min....butI am not sure and I am stuck... A small satellite is 10,000km above the center of a planet andorbits it once in 100min. What is the mass of theplanet? (Assume the satellite’s mass is much less thanthe planet’s mass.)

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given that the time period is 100min in s.i units we convert everything in to seconds=100*60s=6000s angular speed []=2/T=/3000 now centripetal force =mr2=attraction betweensatellite and planet remaining obvious

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