Halley's comet has an elliptical orbit with the sun at one focus. Its orbit shown below is given approximately by r=10.71/1+0.883 sin theta In the formula, r is measured in astronomical units. (One astronomical unit is the average distance from Earth to the sun, approximately 93 million miles.) Find the distance from Halley's comet to the sun at its greatest distance from the sun. Round to the nearest hundredth of an astronomical unit and the nearest million miles.

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Halley's comet has an elliptical orbit with the sun at one focus. Its orbit shown below is given approximately by r=10.71/1+0.883 sin theta  In the formula, r is measured in astronomical units. (One astronomical unit is the average distance from Earth to the sun, approximately 93 million miles.) Find the distance from Halley's comet to the sun at its greatest distance from the sun. Round to the nearest hundredth of an astronomical unit and the nearest million miles.

anonymous · Answer

What Do you think?

anonymous · Answer

I honestly have no idea :/ this is the one question that im having a hard time with

anonymous · Answer

If I just knew the formula to figure it out I could do the rest :/

anonymous · Answer

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