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For this discussion post, you will use data about planetary orbits from a planetary fact sheet published on a NASA website to calculate both the angular and linear velocity of one planet from our solar system. Please follow the following steps: 1. Choose one planet from our solar system (not Earth or the Moon). 2. Examine the data about your chosen planet on this NASA website. For this problem, you will only use two of the categories of data given here: "Distance From Sun" and "Orbital Period". If you choose Mercury or Venus, round the orbital period to the nearest whole day. 3. Assuming the orbit of the chosen planet is a circle (planetary orbital paths are technically ellipses but they are nearly circular, so we will make this simplified assumption), calculate the following (and show your calculations, of course): a. The angular velocity in radians per day (simplify, if possible, and leave in exact form). b. The linear velocity in kilometers per hour (note that you will need to apply a conversion factor to convert days into hours). 4. Embed an image of your