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Johannes Kepler realized that the orbit of Mars is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the foci. This was one of his three laws of planetary motion, known as Kepler's First Law.

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What Kepler discover about the orbits of the planets?

Kelper determined that the orbit of Mars orbit is not a circle but an ellipse.


Who demonstrated that the orbit of planet mars is an ellipse?

It was Johannes Kepler with his laws of planetary motion of 1618.


When Kepler started work on the orbit of mars what did he start calculating?

he started eating bloody mars bars and sweets lol idk get the answer yourself


Who first performed accurate measurements of the orbit of mars?

Johannes Kepler was the first to accurately measure the orbit of Mars in the early 17th century based on observations made by Tycho Brahe. Kepler's work laid the foundation for his laws of planetary motion.


How did Kepler us tycho brahe's data?

Kepler used Tycho Brahe's data by developing his Laws of planetary motion and by analyzing his observations about planet's orbit.! :D


Why was Kepler not satisfied with the circle he calculated to fit most of the observed locations of mars?

The orbits of the planets, including Mars, are eliptical, not circular. Keplers observed positions did not fit a circular orbit. The differences led him to discover that the orbits were not circular, but eliptical.


What was evidence of Kepler's theory?

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), a German who travelled to Prague to become the assistant of Brahe, was studying the orbit of Mars and while examining that data discovered the Laws of Planetary Motion which state an elliptical orbit rather than a circular one.


Did Kepler discover that planets orbit around sun?

Yes, Johannes Kepler discovered that planets orbit around the sun in elliptical paths, rather than in perfect circles as previously believed. This discovery was based on his study of the motion of planets, particularly Mars, and his formulation of the laws of planetary motion known as Kepler's Laws.


Is mars orbit strange?

Mars's orbit is more elliptical than all the eight major planets except Mercury. This enabled Kepler to discover that the orbit was elliptical and not as previously thought a circle with the Sun offset from the centre (represented by a circle and an epicycle with the centre of the epicycle travelling round the circle, and the planet positioned on the epicycle).


Who had a war with Mars?

Johannes Kepler


Which orbit the orbit of mars or the orbit of venus is closer to the earths orbit and how do you know?

Venus's orbit is the closest. I know because I have looked up the distances of both of them in a book. But how is that fact known? it goes back to Johannes Kepler in the early 1600s who formulated the laws of planetary motion. Kepler probably noticed that the outer planets Jupiter and Saturn showed the least retrograde motion and he deduced that they therefore must have the largest orbits. Kepler scaled the orbits in terms of their time periods. The absolute distance to Venus was later found by triangulation, measuring the position of Venus relative to the Sun from two different points on Earth during a transit of Venus. Because the size of the Earth was known, this method yielded the size of Venus's orbit, and then all the other orbits by Kepler's 3rd law. Probably the size of Mars's orbit was also measured by triangulation at some stage as a check.


How many planets orbit around Mars?

No planets orbit around Mars. There are two moons that orbit around Mars.