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Kepler's Laws
    

1. The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the sun at one focus.
2. A line from the planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal intervals of time. This is equivalent to the statement of conservation of angular momentum.
3. , where T is the orbital period in years and a is the semimajor axis Eric Weisstein's World of Math in AU. Also known as the harmonic law.

Kepler's First Law, Kepler's Second Law, Kepler's Third Law






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