Suppose that a comet travels this path and is 400 astronomical units from the sun as its closest, find the hyperbola equation of the path of the comet if the sun is 1000 astronomical units from the center of the path. (Assume that the center is at the origin.)

Suppose that a comet travels this path and is 400 astronomical units from the sun as its closest, find the hyperbola equation of the path of the comet if the sun is 1000 astronomical units from the center of the path. (Assume that the center is at the origin.)

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Suppose that a comet travels this path and is 400 astronomical units from the sun as
its closest, find the hyperbola equation of the path of the comet if the sun is 1000 astronomical units
from the center of the path. (Assume that the center is at the origin.)

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