Answer :
Once its rockets have ceased firing, an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile will follow a path that is best described as an ellipse with the center of the Earth at one focus.
As the ellipse is the set of points, on a plane whose distance from two fixed points sums up to constant, in That describes all free-fall paths near Earth, it got The Major Axis which is the longest diameter and the widest part of the ellipse it basically starts from one side of the ellipse crossing the center to the other side and the Minor Axis which is the shortest diameter and present at the narrowest part of the ellipse.As the ellipse explains all free-fall paths near Earth (free-fall is referred to as the acceleration of objects toward the Earth when dropped at rest)
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