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If We Found a Star Cluster at the Edge of the Disk

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If we found a star cluster at the edge of the disk of the Milky Way at a distance of 10 kpc from the center, which orbited with a velocity of 300 km/s, what would be the total mass enclosed within this radius?


A) 3 * 1011 M \odot 0
B) 7 * 1011 M \odot
C) 2 *1011 M \odot
D) 4 * 1012 M \odot
E) 8 * 1012 M \odot

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