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Kepler's law
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noun Astronomy.
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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Origin of Kepler's law
After J. Kepler
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