SOLUTION: The Earth's orbit is an ellipse with the sun at one of the foci. If the semi-major axis of the ellipse is 92 million km and the eccentricity is 0.15, find the greatest and the leas

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Question 1145177: The Earth's orbit is an ellipse with the sun at one of the foci. If the semi-major axis of the ellipse is 92 million km and the eccentricity is 0.15, find the greatest and the least do stance of earth from sun.
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Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The Earth's orbit is an ellipse with the sun at one of the foci. If the semi-major axis of the ellipse
is 92 million km and the eccentricity is 0.15, find the greatest and the least do stance of earth from sun.
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    The eccentricity of the Earth's orbit is currently about 0.0167; the Earth's orbit is nearly circular.



    Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity


Had the Earth eccentricity be 0.15, the climate on the Earth would be significantly different . . .


Also, 

    Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km.


    See another Wikipedia article  

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit


So, your post is a total disinformation.


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When somebody tries to create his (or her) own Math problem, without having knowledge on the subject,
an expert clearly sees it, even from the distance of 1000 km, or 2000 km, or 5000 km, or 10000 km or even 20000 km.

The fact that the Earth is spherical, does not make an obstacle to see it . . .


Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Thanks for the link. Very intriguing!
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