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Mercury's orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus, eccentricity 0.206, and major axis approximately

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Mercury's orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus, eccentricity 0.206, and major axis approximately 1.158 × 108 km. If you consider Mercury's orbit with the Sun at the origin and the other focus on the positive x-axis, what equation models the orbit?
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