Proving ellipse shape of earth orbit?

adiputra · Mar 7, 2006

hi, i am secondary student, can anybody help me to find a site in proving ellipse shape of Earth orbit? and also those site which help you in understanding Principia?

berkeman · Mar 7, 2006

I googled Earth orbit ellipse shape distance, and got lots of good hits:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=earth+orbit+ellipse+shape+distance

neurocomp2003 · Mar 7, 2006

search for kepler's 3 laws proofs. one of them is for the elliptic.

Proving ellipse shape of earth orbit?

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