GK
BIG BANG THEORY
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Question
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Who discovered the shape of a planet’s orbit is actually an ellipse?
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Ptolemy
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Copernicus
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Kepler
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Galileo
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Knowing then that the orbits of the planets are elliptical, johannes Kepler formulated three laws of planetary motion, which accurately described the motion of comets as well. Kepler’s First Law: each planet’s orbit about the Sun is an ellipse.
Detailed explanation-2: -The elliptical orbits of planets were indicated by calculations of the orbit of Mars. From this, Kepler inferred that other bodies in the Solar System, including those farther away from the Sun, also have elliptical orbits.
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