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Planets travel around the sun in the shape of a(n) _________.
 
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Question:

Planets travel around the sun in the shape of a(n) _________.


Answer:

ellipse

This is stated in Kepler's 1st Law of Planetary Motion.  It was previously thought that planets traveled in perfect circles around the sun.


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Kepler's Laws

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