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Compare and contrast the geocentric model of the solar system and a heliocentric model of the solar system. Determine and explain why a heliocentric model is a scientific model of the solar system.

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The geocentric model says that the earth is at the center of the cosmos or universe, and the planets, the sun and the moon, and the stars circles around it. The early heliocentric models consider the sun as the center, and the planets revolve around the sun.

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