Tuesday, July 19, 2011

ASTRONOMY ELLIPSE QUESTION: Please help, its my math homework for high school! I really would appreciate it?

The moon orbits Earth in an elliptical path with the center of the Earth at one focus. The major axis of the orbit is 774,000 kilometers, and the minor axis is 773,000 kilometers. Using (0, 0) as the center of the ellipse, write the standard equation for the orbit of the Moon around Earth. How far from the center of Earth is the Moon at its closest point? How far from the center of Earth is the Moon at its farthest point? Find the eccentricity of the moons orbit around the earth.

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