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The planet with the highest eccentricity (in other words the most stretched or elongated ellipse) in our solar system is Mercury, with an eccentricity of about 0.21. (Pluto's is higher but is no longer considered a true planet).

By contrast, Venus is the most nearly a perfect circle with an eccentricity of about 0.007.

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