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    astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619, describe the orbits of planets around the Sun. The laws modified...
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  • Newton's laws of motion Euler's laws of motion Cauchy's equations of motion Kepler's laws of planetary motion General relativity Special relativity Quantum...
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    Orbit (redirect from Planetary motion)
    center of mass being orbited at a focal point of the ellipse, as described by Kepler's laws of planetary motion. For most situations, orbital motion is adequately...
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  • as a Kepler orbit using six orbital elements. The Kepler problem is named after Johannes Kepler, who proposed Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which...
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    Kepler's laws of planetary motion were not immediately accepted. Several major figures such as Galileo and René Descartes completely ignored Kepler's...
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    Copernican Revolution (category History of astronomy)
    Newton used Kepler's laws of planetary motion to derive his law of universal gravitation. Newton's law of universal gravitation was the first law he developed...
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    elliptical paths described by Kepler's laws of planetary motion. In the late 1600s, Greek and medieval theories concerning the motion of terrestrial and celestial...
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  • of momentum, r × p {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} \times \mathbf {p} } , because it does not include the mass of the object in question. Kepler's laws of...
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    as the Sun. Kepler's laws of planetary motion: Orbits are elliptical, with the heavier body at one focus of the ellipse. A special case of this is a circular...
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  • distance to the central body because of the law of conservation of angular momentum, or equivalently, Kepler's second law. This states that as a body moves...
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