The asteroid Icarus, discovered in 1949, was so named
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The asteroid Icarus, discovered in 1949, was so named because its highly eccentric elliptical orbit brings it close to the Sun at perihelion. The eccentricity e of an ellipse is defined by the relation where is the perihelion distance and a is the semimajor axis. Icarus has an eccentricity of 0.83 and a period of (a) Determine the semimajor axis of the orbit of Icarus. (b) Determine the perihelion and aphelion distances of the orbit of Icarus.
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