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No, the moon's orbit is an approximation of an ellipse. The plane of this ellipse is tilted by about 5.14 degrees, which is why we don't get lunar and solar eclipses every month. The ellipse also has irregularities causing it to deviate from a true ellipse due to perturbations in earth's gravity field, tidal movement of the oceans, and the gravity of other objects (particularly the sun).

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