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No planet's orbit is a perfect circle. They are all ellipses.

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The extent to which Mars' orbit differs from a perfect circle is called?

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What Kepler discover about the orbits of the planets?

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The eccentricity of a planet's orbit describes?

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What is the circumference of Jupiter from the sun?

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Is mars orbit strange?

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What are the planets has the most elliptical and tilted orbit?

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Astronomer who discovered that planets orbit in an ellipserather than a perfect circle?

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