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Given information

It is given that:

There is an artificial planet in form of band encircling Sun

The distance between the planet and sun is same as the distance between Earth-Sun  

The acceleration due to gravity on the planet is same as that of earth and equals  

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The forces acting on the planet are shown:

Where, represents the mass of planet and mass of sun respectively. 

The forces are:

is the weight of planet towards sun , also there is Gravitational  force of attraction between Sun and the planet denoted by  

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