A spaceship makes a circular orbit with period T around a star. If it were to orbit,
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A spaceship makes a circular orbit with period T around a star. If it were to orbit, at the same distance, a star with three times the mass of the original star, would the new period (in terms of T) be
(a) 3T,
(b) T√3,
(c) T,
(d) T/√13, or
(e) T/3?
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