A science-fiction tale describes an artificial "planet" in the f
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a8sz:n9vaae d7:uo+m hl,3 bj our own, that the distance to the band is the same as the Earth-Sun distance (to make the climate temperate), and that the ring rotates quickly enough to produce an apparent gravity of g as on Earth. What will be the period of revolution, this planet's year, in Earth days?