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He found the period of the planet's revolution around the Sun in years would be equal to the cube of its average distance from the Sun in astronomical units. Let us suppose we find an asteroid with a perihelion distance of 3 AU, and aphelion distance of 5 AU. Calculate its semimajor axis (average distance from the Sun) and use Kepler's Third Law to find its orbital period in years.
The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit around another object. When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars. There are several kinds of orbital periods for objects around the Sun (or other celestial objects): 1  The sidereal period is the temporal cycle that it takes an object to make a full orbit, relative to the stars. 2  This is the orbital period in an inertial (non-rotating) frame of reference.