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Orbit of a Satellite A satellite is in orbit around the moon. A coordinate plane containing the orbit is set up with the center of the moon at the origin, as shown in the following graph, with distances measured in megameters
(a) From the graph, determine the closest to and the farthest from the center of the moon that the satellite gets.
(b) There are two points in the orbit with
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