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What is the eccentricity of the moons orbit?

April 26, 2017eccentricity moon Orbit

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What is the eccentricity of the moons orbit?

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The eccentricity describes how much the ellipse differs from a circle. An orbit with an eccentricity of 0 is a circle. An orbit with an eccentricity of 1 would be an open curve called a parabola. The Moon’s orbit has a low eccentricity, close to 0.