Given the geometry shown in the picture, can you figure out where the planet is when it is moving the fastest and when it is moving the slowest?  Explain your reasoning as clearly as you can.

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A: Given: Speed of the satellite (v) = 7.8 km/sec = 7800 m/s Orbital time of the satellite (T) = 90…

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Q: due southeast, what is the azimuth of that planet in degrees at that instant from their location?

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Q: An object is located in the solar system at a distance from the Sun equal to 41 AU's . What is the…

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Q: how can you show relative distances of the planets from the sun

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A: In the given figure, we have  to discuss the color of focus of elliptical  trajectory of planet…

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Q: What is the actual shape of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun?

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Q: A person's weight W varies inversely as the second power of the distance d from the center of a…

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Q: How far (in km) is 1 lightyear (ly) – the distance travelled by light in one Earth year? Use 299,732…

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Q: me answer this question please, thanks! -ILLUSTRATE THE RELATIONSHIP OF ANGULAR MEASUREMENT TO…

A: ILLUSTRATE THE RELATIONSHIP OF ANGULAR MEASUREMENT TO CIRCULAR ARC LENGTH.

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Q: Which of the following is true about the following diagram? Sun t1 is greater than t2 A1 is greater…

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Q: The scientist Archimedes is famed to have once said “Give me a lever long enough and I’ll move the…

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Q: The average distance between Earth and the Sun is 1.5×1011m.1.5×1011m. (a) Calculate the average…

A: Distance between earth and sun=1.5×1011 m Time period to completed 1 revolution around sun  = 365.25…

Q: Using the m, = 1.99 x 1030 kg and the mę = 5.98 x 1024 kg and the distance between them as 1.00 AU…

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Q: Imagine the distance between Earth and the Sun suddenly decreased by 4 times. Would the force of…

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Q: D B Sun a=5 Ranking Instructions: Rank the orbital period (from longest to shortest) of the planets.…

A: Let the time period of a planet around sun = T Let the distance of planet from sun = d