SOLUTION: The Earth’s orbit is an ellipse with the sun as one of the foci. If the semi-major axis of the Earth’s orbit is 92. 9 miles, find a. the distance of the sun from the center

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Question 1198026: The Earth’s orbit is an ellipse with the sun as one of the foci. If the semi-major axis of the Earth’s orbit is 92. 9 miles, find
a. the distance of the sun from the center
b. the shortest and longest distances of the earth from the sun

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The Earth’s orbit is an ellipse with the sun as one of the foci.
If the semi-major axis of the Earth’s orbit is 92. 9 miles, find
a. the distance of the sun from the center
b. the shortest and longest distances of the earth from the sun
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        In reality, the semi-major axis of the Earth’s orbit is  92.9  highlight%28highlight%28millions%29%29  miles.

Learn from this Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit