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To: longshadow; gore3000
I've already invited you TWICE to ping "RadioAstronomer" to see if he agrees with you that his data supports your ORIGINAL assertion that the planets have "wildly elliptical" orbits, but you've yet to ask him.

I will answer anyway. Referencing my earlier post which contained all of the planets eccentricities and the fact that a circle is an ellipse with the value of e = 0, I without reservation agree that all but two of the planets orbits are so close to circles that for all intent and purposes they can be considered near circular. The other two are quite mild and NONE of the planets fall within the term "wildly"!

593 posted on 04/06/2002 2:30:52 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer
the fact that a circle is an ellipse with the value of e = 0,

Seems your statements and your table do not agree with each other. In your table the Earth is given a 1.0 and you say that it has the most circular path of all the planets diverging only by some 2% from a true circle (note that that still makes it an elliptical orbit). Please clarify.

683 posted on 04/07/2002 9:14:32 AM PDT by gore3000
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