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Kepler’s Third Law: The period’s of the planets are

proportional to the 3/2 powers of the major axis

lengths of their orbits

This is a mouthful. The period (T) is just the amount of time

it takes to go through one cycle (an orbit).

For the special case of circular orbits, this reduces to:

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