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202710-24-54QP AID: 5204 | 15/04/2015

Determine the orbit from Kepler’s second law.


P 2  a3
Here, P is the period, and a is the distance.
For 87 days,
87
 0.24 years
365

Substitute 0.24 years for P.


0.242  a3
a  0.38 AU

This is basically at the location of Mercury, which is outside the habitable zone.

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