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To orbit in a precise circle, it would require a very specific speed. Any variation, and the orbit turns into an ellipse. If ever Earth's orbit WAS a circle, the tug from other planets in the Solar System, as well as any other object that happened to pass nearby, would change it to an ellipse.

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