Kepler's law

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noun

Astronomy.

1. any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time law of areas; or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit harmonic law.

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Etymology

Origin of Kepler's law

After J. Kepler

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Kepler's law

In real life, Kepler’s law allows us to calculate only the combined mass of the two stars in the binary system.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

From Kepler’s law, the period and the separation allow us to calculate the sum of the stars’ masses.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

By Kepler’s law, the planet moves fastest in its orbit when closest to the Sun.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Newton proved Kepler’s law using his second law of motion and his law of universal gravitation.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

Regarded thus, Kepler's law can be expressed as follows: The spatial ordering of our planetary system is determined by the interval-relation in which the different planets stand to each other.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst