miles and the
eccentricity of the ellipse is about 0.0167, find the smallest distance and the
largest distance of Earth from the sun.
It is now understood that the planet Earth orbits the sun elliptically (not
circularly) with the sun as one of the foci. Given that the length of the
major axis of this ellipse is approximately miles and the
eccentricity of the ellipse is about 0.0167, find the smallest distance and the
largest distance of Earth from the sun.
James A. Sellers