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Your mission is to track incoming meteors to predictwhether or not they will strike Earth. Since Earth has acircular cross section, you decide to set up a coordinatesystem with its origin at Earth's center. The equation ofEarth's surface is x + y = 40.68, where x andy are distances in thousands of kilometers.You observe a meteor moving along a path from left to240/289(y 14) x = 60y ? 5.5. What conic section does the path of the meteortravel?The meteor's path is a(n)What is the center of the conic section that describes thepath of the meteor?Determine if the meteor will strike the earth and if it doesstrike the earth at what point.If the meteor doesn't strike the earth then enter NAN forthe coordinate.

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