According to Kepler's first law of planetary motion, the orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci. The eccentricity of an ellipse measures how much it deviates from a perfect circle. An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, while values closer to 1 represent more elongated ellipses.
What is the shape of Earth's orbit?
Asked in WBCS Main Paper 4 2019 · Topic: The Solar System (Planets: Classification (Terrestrial and Jovian), Orbital Characteristics)
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