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Comet Hyakutake has eccentricity of 0.9998, and a perihelion distance of 0.23 AU, which it last passed on May 1, 1996.
a) Calculate the orbital period of this comet around the Sun.
b) Calculate the semimajor axis of this comet's orbit around the Sun. c) Use this information to calculate the mass of the Sun.