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Use Stellarium to observe the trajectories of different planets, the Sun, and the Moon. Notice that the trajectories of all the planets and the Moon lie roughly in a plane close to the ecliptic plane, the plane of apparent motion of the Sun.

   Use Stellarium to observe the trajectories of different planets, the Sun, and the Moon. Notice that the trajectories of all the planets and the Moon lie roughly in a plane close to the ecliptic plane, the plane of apparent motion of the Sun.
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An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics
An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Pankaj Jain 1st Edition
Chapter 1, Problem 6 ↓
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Use Stellarium to observe the trajectories of different planets, the Sun, and the Moon. Notice that the trajectories of all the planets and the Moon lie roughly in a plane close to the ecliptic plane, the plane of apparent motion of the Sun.
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00:01 Okay, as you can kind of see in the diagram, pretty much every single planet's orbit around the sun is an ellipse.
00:08 And so we have to kind of come up with an explanation as to why an equation to make an accurate model of the path of a planet might be useful.
00:16 And i can think of a couple of reasons.
00:17 Reason number one is you can predict where the planet will be and when they will be there...
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