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ExamplesPlanetaryMotionKepler discovered his three laws of planetary motion after a titanic analysis of years of astronomical observations by Tycho Brahe.
![]() where M is the combined mass of the Sun and the planet and G is the universal gravitational constant. The xy-coordinates for the massless test particle are the relative position of the planet with respect to the Sun in this two-body approximation of the solar system.
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