A spaceship makes a circular orbit with period T around a

Chapter 13, Problem Q13.7

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A spaceship makes a circular orbit with period T around a star. If it were to orbit, at the same distance, a star with three times the mass of the original star, would the new period (in terms of T) be (a) 3T, (b) T13, (c) T, (d) T>13, or (e) T>3?

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