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RSB [31]
3 years ago
14

How does the orbital velocity of the earth compare to that of mercury?

Biology
2 answers:
Aleksandr-060686 [28]3 years ago
7 0

Orbital velocty = sqrt(GM/r)

Mass and size of mercury is less than that of earth.

Mass is about 5.5% that of Earth and radius is about 38% that of Earth.

On Substituting the values in given formula we will get orbital velocity of mercury = 47.69km/s

Orbital velocity of Earth is 29.78km/s


Therefore,

Orbital velocity of mercury > Orbital velocity of Earth





rewona [7]3 years ago
5 0
Earth and Mercury are relative to each other
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