Help asap please? trying to get my grade up by tomorrow.

1. Look at the shape of Mercury’s orbit. Is it a circle? (The polar graph paper is a perfect circle.)
2. If the shape of Mercury’s orbit is not a circle, then how would you describe the shape? Does it have a geometric name?
3. Where is the position of the sun within the orbit? Is it at the center? If not, how would you describe the sun’s location?

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Help asap please? trying to get my grade up by tomorrow. 

1.	Look at the shape of Mercury’s orbit. Is it a circle? (The polar graph paper is a perfect circle.)
2.	If the shape of Mercury’s orbit is not a circle, then how would you describe the shape? Does it have a geometric name?
3.	Where is the position of the sun within the orbit? Is it at the center? If not, how would you describe the sun’s location?

anonymous · Answer

heres the circle

anonymous · Answer

can you help ? @whpalmer4

wolfe8 · Answer

Eh, it looks like a circle to me, if what you attached is the orbit. Where is the orbit?

anonymous · Answer

what do you mean where is it?

wolfe8 · Answer

Which one is the orbit? The attachment?

anonymous · Answer

Im guessing yeah, thats all i got with this assignment.

wolfe8 · Answer

http://www.messenger-education.org/images/archive/around_sun_img.gif What shape is that?

anonymous · Answer

a circle.

wolfe8 · Answer

Nope. Here, this might help: http://theo.x10hosting.com/examples/Ellipse/Ellipse3.jpg

anonymous · Answer

As Kepler determined hundreds of years ago, the orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one of the two foci of each ellipse. Ellipses are elongated circles.

anonymous · Answer

second part i think goes with it.