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Kepler accurately described the motions of all the known planets True or false?
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True. Kepler's laws apply to all objects orbiting the sun, even those that had not yet been discovered during his lifetime.
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Did Kepler accurately described the motions of all the known planets?
yes
Who described the orbit of the planets as elliptical?
Johannes Kepler did that first.
Astronomer who discovered that planets orbit the sun in an ellipse rather than a perfect circle?
Johannes Kepler
Who analyzed the motions of planets?
Tycho Bache and Johannes Kepler. Tycho watched and records tons of data of the moments of planets, but his assistant, Johannes Kepler analyzed it all and made theories about the movements to better understand them (this was after Tycho passes away).
How do the planets periods relate to their distances from the sun?
The relationship is described by Kepler's Third Law.
What were the names of Johannes Kepler's peers?
Kepler's "running mate" would have to be Tycho Brahe. It was Brahe whose work (observations) Kepler used as a springboard to think about the motions of the planets and what mechanism could make them appear to do the things they did.
Why do planets have circular and elliptical motions in the solar system?
The scientific explanation lies in Kepler's laws of planetary motions, which were discovered by Newton to be linked with the law of gravity. All the planets have elliptical orbits, and many of those are close being circular.
Who discovered the elliptical path of the planets?
17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler discovered the elliptical shape of the planets' orbits around the Sun, which he described in his first law of planetary motion. Newton later explained this in his law of universal gravitation.
What are the three laws of Johannes Kepler all about?
Kepler's three "laws" of planetary motion constitute Kepler's explanation of the motions of the inner six planets of the solar system. He formulated them from years of sweating over the notebooks kept by another individual who spent his life watching the planets and keeping records of their motions. (Tycho Brahe). After Kepler's death, Isaac Newton developed his theory of gravity. Anybody who has enough geometry and calculus to give Gravity a good massage can show mathematically that IF gravity works the way Newton suggested it does, then the planets MUST move in the ways described by Kepler's Laws ... a nice confirmation of the work of both Newton and Kepler. These laws not only do a good job of describing how the planets move, but when we use Kepler's and Newton's formulas to figure out how to aim artificial satellites, Apollo capsules, and interplanetary probes to the outer solar system, those things always go where we want them to go ... more nice confirmation of the same theories. Oh yes. That's right. Both of them are "just theories".
The fact that each planets orbit is an ellipse was discovered by?
Johannes Kepler determined that all planets have elliptical orbits.
Is Kepler a planet?
No. Kepler is a telescope created to find planets orbiting other stars. Planets found using it are given designations beginning with Kepler, such as Kepler 440b.
Did Johannes Kepler discover Kepler planets?
No, Johannes Kepler is best known for describing the laws that dictate how orbits work. The Kepler planets were discovered by the Kepler telescope, a spacecraft named in his honor.
