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

The Hale-Bopp comet, discovered in $1995,$ has an elliptical orbit with eccentricity 0.9951 and the length of the 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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Chapter6: Topics In Analytic Geometry

Section6.9: Polar Equations Of Conics

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