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That of course depends on what you call "nearly".

The earth's orbit around the sun, like the orbits of all planets, asteroids, and periodic comets,

is an ellipse, with the sun at one focus.

The eccentricity of the earth's orbit is 0.017. That's more eccentric than Venus' (0.007), but less

than Pluto's (0.249).

So the minimum distance across earth's orbit is about 98.6% of the maximum distance. To me,

that's nearly circular.

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