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Can you name the 4 possible shapes of any orbit (as determined by conic sections)?
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Orbit Shapes Quiz
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Created Mar 3, 2010 in
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jonnyboy180
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Jul 11th, 2010 at 04:22 GMT
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I'm confused. Didn't Kepler determine that all planetary orbits are elliptical? And also, how can an orbit be in the shape of a parabola, or for that matter a hyperbola? This quiz doesn't make any sense.
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