The comet Hale-Bopp has an elliptical orbit with the sun at one focus and has an eccentricity

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The comet Hale-Bopp has an elliptical orbit with the sun at one focus and has an eccentricity of e ≈ 0.995. The length of the major axis of the orbit is approximately 500 astronomical units.

(a) Find the length of its minor axis.

(b) Find a polar equation for the orbit.

(c) Find the perihelion and aphelion distances.

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Calculus Of A Single Variable

ISBN: 9781337275361

11th Edition

Authors: Ron Larson, Bruce H. Edwards

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