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The law of suggests that the orbit of planets is not circular but.

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Newton's law of universal gravitation ... massaged and manipulated
with a lot of calculus and geometry ... predicts that closed gravitational
orbits are ellipses.

The circle is such a precise special kind of ellipse that a circular orbit
never occurs. The chance of it is like the chance of flipping a coin and
having it land standing up on its edge ... possible, but very improbable.

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Answer:

Kepler's 2nd law describe the shape of orbit

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Kepler's 2nd law describe the shape of orbit

A planet's orbit's around which it revolve around the Sun is not a circle. It's an ellipse — a ring that's "flattened." The Sun (which is also called the planet's center) holds one ellipse target. A concentration is among two inner points helping to decide an ellipse's form.

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