7.4 Io, one of the satellites of Jupiter, has an orbital period of 1.769 days and the…

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Problem

7.4 Io, one of the satellites of Jupiter, has an orbital period of 1.769 days and the radius of the orbit is

4.22 \times 10^{8} \mathrm{~m}

. Show that the mass of Jupiter is about one-thousandth that of the sun.