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USAAAO — 2016 First Round

Question 11

Mercury’s orbit has a semimajor axis of 0.387 AU. What would be the maximum angular separation between Mercury and the Sun as seen from Venus? Venus’s orbit has a semimajor axis of 0.719 AU. Assume both Mercury and Venus have perfectly circular orbits.

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Source: USAAAO 2016 First Round, Question 11.