Soon after reaching the vicinity of the moon, Apollo 11 (the first spacecraft to land a man

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Soon after reaching the vicinity of the moon, Apollo 11 (the first spacecraft to land a man on the moon) went into an elliptical lunar orbit. The closest the craft was to the moon in this orbit was 70 mi, and the farthest it was from the moon was 190 mi. What was the equation of the path if the center of the moon was at one of the foci of the ellipse? Assume that the major axis is along the x-axis and that the center of the ellipse is at the origin. The radius of the moon is 1080 mi.

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Basic Technical Mathematics

ISBN: 9780137529896

12th Edition

Authors: Allyn J. Washington, Richard Evans

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