The orbit of Hale-Bopp comet,discovered in 1995,is an ellipse with eccentricity 0.995 and one focus at the Sun.The length of its major axis is 369.9 AU.[An astronomical unit (AU) is the mean distance between Earth and the Sun,about 93 million miles.] Find the maximum distance from the comet to the Sun.(The perihelion distance from a planet to the Sun is a(1-e) and the aphelion distance is a(1+e) .Find the answer in AU and round to the nearest hundredth.
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