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But if you saw the orbit drawn on paper, you couldn’t tell it from a perfect circle. It’s eccentricity is 0.017, meaning that the longest dimension of the ellipse is only 1.7 percent longer than the shortest dimension. It looks to you like a perfect circle, and you have to do some fine measuring to detect that it’s not.
