Comet Hale-Bopp, discovered in 1995, has an elliptical orbit with eccentricity 0.9951

Chapter 10, Problem 28

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Comet Hale-Bopp, discovered in 1995, has an elliptical orbit with eccentricity 0.9951. The length of the orbits major axis is 356.5 AU. Find a polar equation for the orbit of this comet. How close to the sun does it come?

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