Question
What does it mean when the orbital eccentricity of a planet is close to 1?(1 point)
Responses
its orbit is close to another planet's.
its orbit is close to another planet's.
Its orbit crosses over the orbit of another planet.
Its orbit crosses over the orbit of another planet.
Its orbit is not closed around a fixed point
Its orbit is not closed around a fixed point
its orbit is a highly elongated ellipsis.
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its orbit is close to another planet's.
its orbit is close to another planet's.
Its orbit crosses over the orbit of another planet.
Its orbit crosses over the orbit of another planet.
Its orbit is not closed around a fixed point
Its orbit is not closed around a fixed point
its orbit is a highly elongated ellipsis.
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GPT-4o mini
When the orbital eccentricity of a planet is close to 1, it means **its orbit is a highly elongated ellipse.** Eccentricity values range from 0 (a perfect circle) to values approaching 1 (highly elongated ellipses).