Friday, July 27, 2018

classical mechanics - Does mass affect speed of orbit at a certain distance?


Does the mass of both the parent object, and the child object affect the speed at which the child object orbits the parent object?


I thought it didn't (something like $T^2 \approx R^3$) until I saw an planet on the iphone exoplanet app, that is closer to it's star than a planet in another system, yet takes longer to complete one orbit. Both of the planets were a similar mass, as were the stars.




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