Calculate the semimajor axis (a) for this orbit.
Engineering (Assume the average Earth Radius RE = 6378 km): 1. Using Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation (G = 6.67 x 10–11 N·m2 /kg2 ) Calculate the average gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun. The mass of the Sun is M Sun = 1.9891 x 10 30 kg and the mass of the […]