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Halley's orbit is a very eccentric (stretched-out) ellipse, so at perihelion Halley's Comet is only about 90 million kilometers from the Sun, compared to more than 5 billion kilometers at aphelion. Does Halley's Comet spend most of its time near its perihelion distance, near its aphelion distance, or halfway in between? Explain.

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It spends most of its time halfway between
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