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Old December 4th 04, 04:39 AM
Martin Lewicki
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Default Drawing an ellipse

Hi

I would like to draw a realistic representation of an elliptical orbit with
a simple computer drawing program. Given the semi-major axis and
eccentricity, is there a formula that converts these into the lengths of
the major and minor axes so that I can enter these values into the the
"circle" function to make the ellipse?

TIA
Marty