The greatest inaccuracy in Copernicus' model of the solar system was that he still believed that planets moved in perfect circles, when in fact they move in ellipses. This led to inaccuracies in predicting planetary positions.
The 8 planets orbit around the Sun, in ellipses.
Kepler did not discover ellipses. In 1605 he discovered that the orbits of the planets were ellipses rather than perfect circles.
Ellipses
They move around the Sun in ellipses - just like the planets.
The greatest inaccuracy in Copernicus' model of the solar system was that he still believed that planets moved in perfect circles, when in fact they move in ellipses. This led to inaccuracies in predicting planetary positions.
Ellipses are a scientific word for the shape of an oval. for example the planets orbits are ellipses.
their orbits
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The 8 planets orbit around the Sun, in ellipses.
Kepler did not discover ellipses. In 1605 he discovered that the orbits of the planets were ellipses rather than perfect circles.
Ellipses
ellipses.
ellipses
Kepler discovered that the planets orbit the sun in oval shaped paths called ellipses.
The traditional model was that they moved in "epicycles", which is basically a point on a circle, which both rotates, and revolves around another circle.Since the planets actually move around the Sun in ellipses, this model is not entirely accurate.
The planets move intheir ellipticalorbits becauseof the gravitation of the Sun combined withthe inertial velocity of the planets(tangentialto their orbital paths). Mathematics shows the resulting orbits must be ellipses. (Some of the ellipses are in factalmost circles.)