The position of a comet with a highly eccentric elliptical orbit (e very near 1) is measured with respect to a fixed polar axis (sun is at a focus but the polar axis is not an axis of the ellipse) at two times, giving the two points (4, ?/2) and (3, ?/4) of the orbit. Here distances are measured in astronomical units (1 AU ?. 93 million miles). For the part of the orbit near the sun, assume that e = 1, so the orbit is given by
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