The period will increase. The relationship is given by Kepler's Third Law.
the planet would have its year shorter
It depend on the distance of planet from sun and size of planet. If distance increases the time ie. Year increases
How does a planet's distance from the sun affect its period of revolution?
If a planet's distance from the sun would increase, its revolutionary path would be extended (because it would have to traverse more distance), ergo increasing its period of revolution. Take an ellipse and enlarge it, then measure the perimeter of each ellipse, the larger one will have a larger perimeter.
This can be answered looking at Kepler's Third Law: "The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit." What this means is that as the distance of a planet to the sun increases, this change is directly proportional to the length of it's year.
It decreases as the square of the distance.
No. The link is between the planet's distance from its star and the period of its orbit.
The relationship between the planet's SPEED and its distance from the Sun is given by Kepler's Third Law.From there, it is fairly easy to derive a relationship between the period of revolution, and the distance.
It increases.
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The farther away a planet is from the sun, the longer it takes to make an orbit. It would take more than one year if the planet was farther away from the sun than Earth.
The relationship that exists between a planet's distance from the Sun and its period of revolution is that the closer the planet is from the Sun, the less amount of time it takes for the planet to complete its period of revolution.