Answer all 3 Que:1 Solve the following: a) Mercury has Semi major axis length of 5.790905 X 1010 m and semi-minor axis length of 5.667152 X 1010 m. Calculate Mercury's eccentricity to four significant digits. b) The orbit of Europa around Jupiter have a2= 4.5011 X  1011 and b2= 4.5007 X 1011.Find the eccentricity of Europa to three decimal places. c)When earth is at aphelion, it is 1.52100 X 108 km from the sun. When it is at perihelion; the earth is 1.47095 X 108 km from the sun. Find the eccentricity of earth's orbit to three decimal places.

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Que:1 Solve the following:

a) Mercury has Semi major axis length of 5.790905 X 1010 m and semi-minor axis length of 5.667152 X 1010 m. Calculate Mercury's eccentricity to four significant digits.

b) The orbit of Europa around Jupiter have a2= 4.5011 X  1011 and b2= 4.5007 X 1011.Find the eccentricity of Europa to three decimal places.

c)When earth is at aphelion, it is 1.52100 X 108 km from the sun. When it is at perihelion; the earth is 1.47095 X 108 km from the sun. Find the eccentricity of earth's orbit to three decimal places.

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