orbit our Sun. The planet is depicted as the yellow
dot at the bottom right, while the Sun is located
at the left focus.
Kepler's First Law of
Planetary Motion:
*All
planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one
of the foci*
Thanks to previous
observations by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe,
Kepler was able to introduce the
idea that the orbits of
planets around our Sun are elliptical, and the Sun
rests at one focus in the
ellipse .With his
first Law of Planetary Motion, Kepler described
how the planets in our solar system
orbit the Sun in a non-circular path.
Contents
Title Page
Kepler’s First Law of Planetary Motion
Kepler’s Second
Law of Planetary Motion
Kepler’s Third
Law of Planetary Motion