When the orbital eccentricity of a planet is close to 1, it means its orbit is a highly elongated ellipse. In orbital mechanics, an eccentricity value of 0 represents a circular orbit, while values approaching 1 indicate increasingly elongated orbits.
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What does it mean when the orbital eccentricity of a planet is close to 1?(1 point)
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its orbit is a highly elongated ellipsis.
its orbit is a highly elongated ellipsis.
Its orbit is not closed around a fixed point
Its orbit is not closed around a fixed point
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.
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