KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
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Who did modified the heliocentric model with the sun at one common focal point on the elliptical orbit of the planets?
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Ibn Jabr al-Battani
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Johannes Keppler
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Claudius Ptolemy
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Johannes Kepler’s laws improved the model of Copernicus. According to Copernicus: The planetary orbit is a circle with epicycles. The Sun is approximately at the center of the orbit.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1617 and 1621, Kepler developed a heliocentric model of the Solar System in Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae, in which all the planets have elliptical orbits. This provided significantly increased accuracy in predicting the position of the planets.
Detailed explanation-3: -Johannes Kepler disproved the belief that the planets’ orbit was shaped like a perfect circle. In his first law, he stated that the planets around the sun are actually moving in an elliptical orbit.
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