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Johannes Kepler Research Paper

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In the beginning of the 17th century a man named Johannes Kepler published three laws of planetary motion for a sun centered solar system. These three laws became known as Keplars three laws, and where based off of the data that was gradually collected by his teacher and mentor Tycho Brahe. The reasoning behind the explanations for these laws are no longer accepted as accurate, however the laws themselves are considered as a good description for the motion of any satellite and are still used even today.
Keplars first law is sometimes known as the Law of Ellipses, this law explains that planets orbiting the sun are not orbiting in a circular path but instead in an elliptical path.
Keplars second law is known as the law of equal areas. This
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