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11 years ago
From Kepler's third law, a hypothetical planet that is twice as far from the Sun as Earth should have a period of
1/2 Earth year.  

 1 Earth year.  

 more than 2 Earth years.  

 2 Earth years.  

 It depends on the planet's mass.
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11 years ago
more than 2 Earth years.
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11 years ago
Since in Kepler's third law the cube of the distance equals the square of the period, in your problem that means 2 cubed, or 8 equals the square of the distance.  The square root of 8 is a bit less than 3, so there's your answer.
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