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Until the seventeenth century, it was believed that orbits could only be circular. But in 1601, German astronomer Johannes Kepler acquired the planetary positional data of Tycho Brahe, who had recently died. The data was the most accurate of its time and spanned 15 years.
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Wood, J. (2019). Modern Orbital Mechanics. In: The Dynamics of Small Solar System Bodies. SpringerBriefs in Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28109-0_4
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