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Johannes Kepler's Solar System

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In, the early 1600’s Johannes Kepler discovered that planets travel in more of an oval shaped pattern as opposed to circular. From the observations and data collected by his mentor, Tycho Brahe on the movements of Mars, he came to the discovery that the orbits of planets were “elliptical”.

Kepler’s law states that, “the path of the planets about the sun is elliptical in shape, with the center of the sun being located at one focus”. Although, this law seems simple, it is deceptively hard to prove and took an incredible amount of insight to be discovered.

In order to apply this theory, I decided to calculate the average speed of the planets in our solar system as it orbit around the sun and see how this changes as the distance between the

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