Calculate the Earth's angular momentum in the approximation that treats the Earth's orbit around the Sun as a circle. (MSun = 1.99 × 10^30 kg; T = 3.156 × 10^7 s; ME = 5.98 × 10^24 kg.)


2.67 × 10^40 kg/m2/s

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