Obtain the mass of the planet

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An Astronomer is in a spaceship that is orbiting around a planet with a period of 34 hours. The spaceship is a distance of 3 x 107 m away from the planet's center. What is the mass of the planet? How far from the planet would a moon have to orbit to have the same period (28 days) as our moon?

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