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Johannes Kepler third law of planetary motion

"The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit."

The third law, published by Kepler in 1619  captures the relationship between the distance of planets from the Sun, and their orbital periods.
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