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Neptune's and Venus's have even lower eccentricities of 0.008 6 and 0.006 8 respectively, the latter being the least orbital eccentricity of any planet in the Solar System. Over hundreds of thousands of years, the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit varies from nearly 0.003 4 to almost 0.058 as a result of gravitational attractions among the ...
HD 80606 b has the most eccentric orbit of any known planet after HD 20782 b.Its eccentricity is 0.9336, comparable to Halley's Comet.The eccentricity may be a result of the Kozai mechanism, which would occur if the planet's orbit is significantly inclined to that of the binary stars.
In orbital mechanics, the eccentric anomaly is an angular parameter that defines the position of a body that is moving along an elliptic Kepler orbit. The eccentric anomaly is one of three angular parameters ("anomalies") that define a position along an orbit, the other two being the true anomaly and the mean anomaly .
HD 80606 b was considered the planet with the most eccentric orbit until the recent discovery. HD 80606 b has an eccentricity of 0.93 and a shorter orbit of 111 days, and it orbits in the same ...
The basic elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, showing a planet on an epicycle (smaller dashed circle), a deferent (larger dashed circle), the eccentric (×) and an equant (•). Equant (or punctum aequans) is a mathematical concept developed by Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD to account for the observed motion of the planets. The equant is ...
Orbital circularization can be caused by either or both of the two objects in an orbit if either or both are inelastic. Cooler stars tend to be more viscous and circularize objects orbiting them faster than hot stars. [3] If Ω/ω > 18/11 (~1.64) circularization will not occur and the eccentricity will increase. [4]
The eccentricity of an orbit is a measure of how elliptical (elongated) it is. All the planets of the Solar System except for Mercury have near-circular orbits (e<0.1). [8] Most exoplanets with orbital periods of 20 days or less have near-circular orbits, i.e. very low eccentricity.
The planet has an eccentric orbit, ranging in distance from 0.737 AU at periastron to 1.497 AU at apastron. HD 33564 b is a gas giant in a habitable zone of its star. Based on a probable 10 −4 fraction of the planet mass as a satellite, [ 1 ] it can have a Mars -sized moon with habitable surface. [ 2 ]