Kepler's 3rd law

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Johannes Kepler (b. 1571)

Kepler's laws of planetary motion 1609-1619

The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.

$$T^2 \propto a^3$$

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