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Keplerian Motion

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Which of Kepler's Laws states that a planet's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse, with the Sun at one of the foci?

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First Law
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Kepler's First Law, also known as the Law of Ellipses, describes the shape of a planet's orbit around the Sun. It states that the orbit is an ellipse, with the Sun at one of the foci.

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