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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 3#️⃣ Question 13🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

Physicists from MIT and Caltech discovered a black hole triple, where two stars are orbiting a central black hole with periods of 7 days and 70,000 years, respectively. According to Kepler's third law, about how many times greater is the semimajor axis of the further-out star's orbit compared to the closer star's orbit?

W) 200
X) 2,000
Y) 20,000
Z) 200,000
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