Orbit Shape

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	noun • a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it adjective satellite • rounded like an egg
	29%	8		Circular orbit within another circular orbit
	noun • a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid
	29%	6		The elliptical orbit of Halley's Comet takes it beyond the orbit of this planet.
	noun • English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)

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