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1) State if the following statement is True or False: All orbits are elliptical. (Hint: Remember that a circle is a special case of an ellipse.)

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Answer:

TRUE

Step-by-step explanation:

An orbit is a regular, repeating path that an object in space (satellite) takes around another one, planet, comets, asteroids in solar system orbit the sun and even though orbits come in different shapes (almost circular in the case of planets or "squashed" in the case of comets), according to NASA, all of them are elliptical, meaning their shape is similar to an oval or a flattened circle.

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