The orbit of Hale-Bopp comet, discovered in 1995, is an ellipse with eccentricity
and one focus at the Sun.The length of its major axis is
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
and the aphelion distance is
Find theAnswer in AU and round to the nearest hundredth.
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