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OpenStudy (anonymous):

The orbit of a planet around the sun is a

OpenStudy (ipwnbunnies):

Ellipse?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

all the planets orbit the sun in roughly circular orbits that lie in the same plane, the ecliptic (Pluto is an exception; it has an elliptical orbit tilted over 17° from the ecliptic).

OpenStudy (anonymous):

The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury are very nearly circular. The orbits of the planets are all more or less in the same plane (called the ecliptic and defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit). The ecliptic is inclined only 7 degrees from the plane of the Sun's equator

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ellipsis

OpenStudy (doc.brown):

Pluto is not a planet.

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