The Apollo 11 spacecraft was placed in an elliptical orbit around the moon. The point in a lunar orbit nearest the surface of the moon is called the perilune, and the point fattest from the surface is called the apolune. The Apollo's orbit had a perilune altitude of 110 km and an apolune altitude of 314 km above the moons surface. Find the equation of this ellipse and radius of the moon is 1728 km and the centre of the moon is at one focus

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The Apollo 11 spacecraft was placed in an elliptical orbit around the moon. The point in a lunar orbit nearest the surface of the moon is called the perilune, and the point fattest from the surface is called the apolune. The Apollo's orbit had a perilune altitude of 110 km and an apolune altitude of 314 km above the moons surface. Find the equation of this ellipse and radius of the moon is 1728 km and the centre of the moon is at one focus 

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