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An Astronomer Is Trying to Detect an Exoplanet Via the Radial

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An astronomer is trying to detect an exoplanet via the radial velocity method. Which of these changes to a particular planet will make it harder to detect, if everything else about the planet is unchanged?


A) decreasing its orbital period
B) decreasing its mass
C) decreasing its radius
D) decreasing its albedo

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