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A comet has a period of 76.3 years and moves in an elliptical
orbit in which its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun)
is 0.610 AU. Find (a) the semimajor axis of the comet and
(b) an estimate of the comet’s maximum distance from the
Sun, both in astronomical units.
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