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Kepler's Laws Johannes Kepler made it his life's work to create a heliocentric (sun-centered) model of the solar system which would accurately represent the observed motion in the sky of the Moon and ... Read more
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Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion Kepler's three laws are geometric relationships that describe the motions of the planets in the solar system. German astronomer Johannes Kepler derived them in the ea... Read more
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Kepler's Second Law and Angular Momentum German astronomer Johannes Kepler is credited with demonstrating that abandoning an Earth-centered, or Ptolemaic, view of planetary motion for a Sun-centered, ... Read more