Icarus The asteroid Icarus is about 1 mi wide

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Problem

80. Icarus The asteroid Icarus is about 1 mi wide. It revolves around the Sun once every 409 Earth days and has an orbital eccentricity of 0.83 . Use Kepler's first and third laws to determine Icarus's semimajor axis, perihelion distance, and aphelion distance.

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