Well first of all, a planet doesn't have a semimajor axis, although it's orbit does.
In an orbit with a smaller semimajor axis, the planet moves faster, and its orbital period is shorter.
That's why the International Space Station circles the Earth in less time than the Moon does.
Explanation:
Kepler’s third law states that for all objects orbiting a given body, the cube of the semimajor axis (A) is proportional to the square of the orbital period (P).
For each of our planets orbiting the Sun, the relationship between the orbital period and semimajor axis can be represented by the equation as:

k is constant of proportionality
It is required to solve the above equation for k

Answer:
Yes
Explanation:
The farther something is from the center of mass of an object such as a planet, the lower the gravitational force between them
F = GMm/d²
if there were no invention of machines then life would have been more difficult and simple works could be hard to do. Even now we are using our phones, sitting in a AC room interacting to eachother from different places. without the invention of machines simple things like transportation would have been difficult. There would be horses and donkey for the transportation. There would be no electricity,no internet, no transportation, not even c computers or mobile etc. The market for business will be smaller, the knowledge and news about world would be less.
so the problem would have been bigger than we can imagine. But one thing is that nature could survive lot more compared to what we have done till now by destroying nature.