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How will you ‘weigh the sun’, that is estimate its mass? The mean orbital radius of the earth around the sun is km.
Solution:
The gravitational force acting on Earth due to Sun is mean orbital radius of the earth around the sun. Now, the centripetal force acting on the earth due to the Sun is angular velocity Since, this centripetal force is provided by the gravitational pull of the Sun on the Earth, so,
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