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It was observed that as the spacecraft Voyager 1 reached the point on its trajectory close...

It was observed that as the spacecraft Voyager 1 reached the point on its trajectory closest to the planet Jupiter, it was at a distance of 350 × 103 km from the center of the planet and bad a velocity of 26.9 km/s. Determine the mass of Jupiter, assuming that the trajectory of the spacecraft was parabolic.

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