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📅 MIT Science Bowl Invitational 2020🎓 HS🔄 Round 1#️⃣ Question 16🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

Researchers at MIT were part of a team which recently used the Kepler space telescope along with a network of ground-based telescopes to discover an exoplanet with an orbital period of 3.14 days. Given that they know the mass of the star which it orbits, which of the following laws would allow them to determine the size of the planet's orbit?

W) Stefan-Boltzmann law
X) Kepler's first law
Y) Kepler's second law
Z) Kepler's third law
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