Homework Help: Physics I am lost please help

Posted by Angelina on Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 2:11pm.

A planet has two satellite moons. Moon X has an orbital period of 2.13 days. Moon Y has an orbital period of about 3.53 days. Both moons have nearly circular orbits. Use Kepler's third law to find the distance of each satellite from the planet's center. The planet's mass is 2.0 10^26 kg.
Moon X km?
Moon Y km?

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