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You land on an alien planet. While in orbit, you see that the radius is 4075...

You land on an alien planet. While in orbit, you see that the radius is 4075 km. While on the surface, you drop a rock (from rest) from a height of 1.50 m above the surface and you observe that the rock takes 0.734 s to reach the ground.

What is the mass of the planet?

What is the average density of this planet? (Assume the planet is spherical. The volume of a sphere is  V = 4 3 π r 3)

What do you name this new planet?

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