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The Sun's center is at one focus of Earth's orbit. How far from this focus is the other focus, (a) in meters and (b) in terms of the solar radius, `6.96 xx 10^8` m? The eccentricity is 0.0167, and the semimajor axis is `1.50 xx 10^11` m.

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