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What led kepler to abandon circular orbits and his discovery that planetary orbits are ellipses?
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What led kepler to abandon circular orbits and his discovery that planetary orbits are ellipses?
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A deviation between observed and model values that was much larger than the observation uncertainties led Kepler to abandon circular orbits and his discovery that planetary orbits are ellipses
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