“On the other hand, our home planet has an eccentricity of only 0.017. “Earth’s orbit is fairly circular,” said Larry Wasserman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. “If you drew it on a piece of paper to scale, you probably wouldn’t notice it was slightly flattened.”
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