Loose Leaf For Explorations:  Introduction To Astronomy
Loose Leaf For Explorations: Introduction To Astronomy
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781260432145
Author: Thomas T Arny, Stephen E Schneider Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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You may have noticed that although every 10 years or so there is a comet visible in the night sky, the same comet is rarely seen twice during a human lifetime. Use this fact and Kepler’s third law to deduce how the semimajor axis and shape of a typical comet’s orbit must compare to Earth’s orbit.

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