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Assume that a planet radiates heat at a rate proportional to the fourth power of its surface temperature T and that the temperature of the planet is such that this loss is exactly compensated by the heat gained from the sun. Show that other things remaining the same, a planet's surface temperature will vary inversely as the square root of its distance from the sun.

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