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If the distance between the earth and the sun becomes half its present value, the number of days in a year would have been

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Correct option is B

According to Kepler's third Iaw, the ratio of the squares of the periods of any two planets revolving about the sun is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distances from the sun, i.e.,T1T22=r1r23=r112r13=8⇒T1T2=22∴T2=T122=365 days 22=129 days


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