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A comet is found in a highly elliptical orbit with a semi-major axis equal to one astronomical unit (AU). According to Kepler's third law of planetary motion, what would the sidereal period of this comet be?

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It would be more than one year.

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It would be one year.

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It would be less than one year.

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It would be 76 years; the same for every comet.

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