The orbital period and distance of an exoplanet, using Kepler’s Third Law

Kepler’s Laws of motion describe how planets in our Solar System orbit around our Sun, but they can also be used to determine the orbital properties of faraway mysterious worlds. Join Babatunde Akinsamni, Exoplanet Researcher at the University of Geneva, and discover how to determine the orbital period and orbital distance of two exoplanets, KELT-3b and TOI-560c, using Kepler’s Third Law.

This video has been developed in the context of the first ever ESA Education hackathon for secondary students: “Hack an Exoplanet”. This educational activity allows students to use real satellite data to investigate alien worlds and become exoplanet detectives for a day.

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