4. How far away from the sun was Mercury at aphelion? On what day did aphelion occur?
5. How far away from the sun was Mercury at perihelion? On what day did it occur?
6. How many days elapsed between aphelion and perihelion? What percent of the time to complete one orbit was this?
7. What was the average radius of Mercury in its orbit that you calculated? How does it compare to the accepted value of 0.387 AU? Calculate the percent error using the following equation. Show your work.

Question

4.	How far away from the sun was Mercury at aphelion? On what day did aphelion occur?
5.	How far away from the sun was Mercury at perihelion? On what day did it occur?
6.	How many days elapsed between aphelion and perihelion? What percent of the time to complete one orbit was this?
7.	What was the average radius of Mercury in its orbit that you calculated? How does it compare to the accepted value of 0.387 AU? Calculate the percent error using the following equation. Show your work.

anonymous · Answer

Heres the equation % error (calculated value - accepted value / accepted value) x 100

anonymous · Answer

Can't do much without knowing the part before this (are you given a table or a graph?). Aphelion means the point furthest from the sun, perihelion means the point closest to the sun.

The second part of 6. will be 50% regardless.