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why does a planet's orbital radius represents that planet's average distance from the sun and not its exact distance?
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Steve
the orbit is not a circle, but an ellipse. The planet is not always exactly the same distance from the sun.
Read up on Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Read up on Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
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