
#AskAbhijit 122: Science, Technology, Astrophysics!
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What Is Orbital Eccentricity?
In the elphor and elfive regions of jupiter, we have thousands or millions of asteroids that clump around that place. They are called the trojan asteroids. So an ellipse has something called eccentricity. Orbital eccentricitat or betal eccentricity is what orbits are like. None of the orbits of the planets, planets, is perfectly spherical. You could have satellites in a circular orbit, have sutelies in squat, elongated elliptical orbits. And each orbit has a certain value of its eccentricity, and that's what orbital eccentricity is.
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