Question

What does it mean when the orbital eccentricity of a planet is close to 1?(1 point)

Responses

its orbit is close to another planet's.

Its orbit crosses over the orbit of another planet.

its orbit is a highly elongated ellipsis.
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Its orbit is not closed around a fixed point

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

its orbit is a highly elongated ellipsis.

Answer 2

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When the orbital eccentricity of a planet is close to 1, it means that its orbit is a highly elongated ellipse.