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Kepler's Laws:
1st Law: Planets Orbit in Elliptic Paths
2nd Law: Radius vector sweeps out equal areas in equal times.
3rd Law: The
square
of the period is proportional to the
cube
of the semi-major axis.
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2001-01-05