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A satellite is in an elliptic orbit around the earth with aphelion of 6R and perihelion of 2R where R = 6400 km is the radius of the earth. Find eccentricity of the orbit.
`[G = 6.67 xx 10^-11` SI units and M `= 6xx 10^24 kg]`

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