eccentricity Comparison Table

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eccentricity comparison table

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orbital element orbital quantity One of seven quantities that must be established from observations in order to define the size, shape, and orientation of an orbit in space.

eccentricity orbital element e The amount by which the elliptical orbit deviates from circularity: e = c/a, where c is the distance from the center to a focus and a is the semimajor axis.

Subject	is an instance of	is a kind of	has symbol	has definition
orbital element		orbital quantity		One of seven quantities that must be established from observations in order to define the size, shape, and orientation of an orbit in space.
eccentricity	orbital element		e	The amount by which the elliptical orbit deviates from circularity: e = c/a, where c is the distance from the center to a focus and a is the semimajor axis.

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