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To: RadioAstronomer
WHAT error on elipses?
231 posted on 07/31/2002 6:19:30 AM PDT by medved
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To: medved
Oh wow! I can't believe you missed the hundreds of posts where we attempted to explain to Gore3000 that a circle is an ellipse. :-)
232 posted on 07/31/2002 6:21:59 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: medved
WHAT error on elipses?

LBB claimed circles were not elipses, and that the planets had "wildly eliptical" orbits. In reality the orbits have very low eliptical values and can be considered as circles for many calculations -- with the exceptions of Mercury and Pluto. Remember, this all came about because of the discussion on your theory that the Earth orbited Saturn before moving into its current position, and how it was pointed out that such a move would result in a highly eliptical orbit rather than a near circular one.

246 posted on 07/31/2002 10:04:39 AM PDT by Junior
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