{"id":753010,"date":"2023-04-07T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=753010"},"modified":"2023-04-07T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:48:00","slug":"the-orbital-period-and-distance-of-an-exoplanet-using-keplers-third-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=753010","title":{"rendered":"The orbital period and distance of an exoplanet, using Kepler\u2019s Third Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The_orbital_period_and_distance_of_an_exoplanet_using_Kepler_s_Third_Law_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kepler\u2019s 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\u2019s Third Law.<\/p>\n<p>This video has been developed in the context of the first ever ESA Education hackathon for secondary students: \u201cHack an Exoplanet\u201d. This educational activity allows students to use real satellite data to investigate alien worlds and become exoplanet detectives for a day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackanexoplanet.esa.int\/challenges-orbital-period-and-distance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Find out more on the <i>Hack an Exoplanet<\/i> platform<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Sets\/Hack_an_Exoplanet\/(result_type)\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Access all the\u00a0<i>Hack an Exoplanet<\/i>\u00a0videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/04\/The_orbital_period_and_distance_of_an_exoplanet_using_Kepler_s_Third_Law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The orbital period and distance of an exoplanet, using Kepler\u2019s Third Law<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kepler\u2019s 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.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753011,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}