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It was observed that as the Galileo spacecraft reached the point of its trajectory closest...

It was observed that as the Galileo spacecraft reached the point of its trajectory closest to Io, a moon of the planet Jupiter, it was at a distance of 2820 km from the center of Io and had a velocity of 15 km/s. Knowing that the mass of lo is 0.01496 times the mass of the earth, determine the eccentricity of the trajectory of the spacecraft as it approached Io.

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