Moving Comet Shoot --- Introduction ---

In this exercise, you are given the motion of a comet going around a hidden sun, and it's up to you to find out where the sun is.

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Number of tries allowed (1 to 15):

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Description: shoot the sun according to the motion of a comet (needs java). interactive exercises, online calculators and plotters, mathematical recreation and games

Keywords: interactive mathematics, interactive math, server side interactivity, geometry, comet, sun, gravity, Newton, Kepler, ellipse, focus