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13.5 Exercise 8

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The perihelion of the comet Lagerkvist is 2.61 AU and it has a period of 7.36 years. Show that the aphelion for this comet is 4.95 AU.

OpenStax University Physics Volume 1, 13.5 Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, exercise 8

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