Not to be an internet nit picker butt - aren't the planetary orbits elliptical? That was a big thing in modeling the solar system, IIRC.
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Not to be an internet nit picker butt - aren't the planetary orbits elliptical? That was a big thing in modeling the solar system, IIRC.
Yes, to varying degrees. And the graphic does show that (Mercury being the easiest example to see). You can also see a whole bunch of the smaller objects orbits crossing each other.
The distance from the sun of everything is also scaled (I think logarithmic ?), which can make things seem less elliptical.
The unquestioned Big Dog:
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https://mymodernmet.com/richard-jackson-bad-dog/
Not to be pedantic, but any ellipse whose foci are coincident is a circle. :)
Obligatory emergency meme:
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