This law relates a planet’s orbital period and its average distance to the Sun.

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✔ Kepler’s third law; This law relates a planet’s orbital period and its average distance to the Sun.: Kepler’s third law; The orbits of planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus.: Kepler’s first law; The speed of a planet varies, such that a planet sweeps out an equal area in equal time frames.: Kepler’s second law

Lesson 7: Earth-Moon-Sun System

This law relates a planet’s orbital period and its average distance to the Sun.

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