GK
BIG BANG THEORY
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Question
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Who found that planets orbit as an ellipse and not a perfect circle?
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Johannes Kepler
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Galileo Galilei
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Albert Einstein
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Nicolas Copernicus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician and astronomer who discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits.
Detailed explanation-2: -This discovery (which became Kepler’s second law of orbital motion) led to the realization of what became Kepler’s first law: that the planets move in an ellipse (a squashed circle) with the Sun at one focus point, offset from the center.
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