If the year length on a planet is equal to earth years is it closer to the sun that the earth?

Question

explain your answer

Answer 1

A planet's year is based on its orbital speed. And that speed depends on the distance from its star and the star's mass.

Put the Earth at the same distance from a star twice as massive as the sun and the Earth's year would be half as long.

If the year for a planet is the same as the Earth's it means:
- the star is the same mass as the sun and the planet is the same distance from its star as the Earth
- the star is less massive than the sun and the planet is closer to it
- the star is more massive than the sun and the planet is farther away

Answer 2

The time it takes for a planet to go around its sun depends on only two things:
The mass of the star
The mean orbital distance.

If you are talking about a planet around the same star as Earth (i.e., the Sun), then the same orbital period means the same mean orbital distance.

However, the orbit could be more elliptical, meaning that the other planet (with the same 'year' as Earth) could be closer to the Sun for about half its orbit, and further from the Sun for the other half (as long as the mean distance is the same).

Answer 3

There are three factors that determine a stable orbit for a planet. The mass of the planet, the mass of the object it orbits(..in this case I assume that would be the sun..), and the mass of other major objects in the system that again I assume are the same as in our solar system now. Since your hypothetical planet orbits the sun in the same length of time as Earth (..365 days..) its mass and mean distance from the sun would be identical to Earth's.

So the answer to your question is "no."

Answer 4

no, a planets year length is based on its distance from the sun.
So if the planet is closer to the sun, it would have to be a shorter year

Answer 5

could be because i believe the length of the year also depends on the speed it is going around.