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    Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who lived from 1571-1630. He worked as an apprentice to Tycho Brahe, who tasked Kepler with studying the orbit of Mars. Through his observations, Kepler disproved the long-held belief that planets moved in perfect circles, and instead established that their orbits were ellipses. He developed his three laws of planetary motion, stating that planets orbit the sun at one focus of an ellipse, that they sweep out equal areas in equal times, and that the squares of their orbital periods are proportional to the cubes of their average distances from the sun.

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    Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who lived from 1571-1630. He worked as an apprentice to Tycho Brahe, who tasked Kepler with studying the orbit of Mars. Through his observations, Kepler disproved the long-held belief that planets moved in perfect circles, and instead established that their orbits were ellipses. He developed his three laws of planetary motion, stating that planets orbit the sun at one focus of an ellipse, that they sweep out equal areas in equal times, and that the squares of their orbital periods are proportional to the cubes of their average distances from the sun.

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    Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who lived from 1571-1630. He worked as an apprentice to Tycho Brahe, who tasked Kepler with studying the orbit of Mars. Through his observations, Kepler disproved the long-held belief that planets moved in perfect circles, and instead established that their orbits were ellipses. He developed his three laws of planetary motion, stating that planets orbit the sun at one focus of an ellipse, that they sweep out equal areas in equal times, and that the squares of their orbital periods are proportional to the cubes of their average distances from the sun.

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    Johannes Kepler and His

    Scientific Contributions
    By Katelyn Cooper
    Apprenticeship
    • Lived from 1571-1630
    • German moved to Prague to become Brahe’s
    apprentice
    • Brahe told him to watch the orbit of Mars, so
    Brahe could continue with his theory on the solar
    system
    • He kept him occupied with the orbit of Mars
    because Brahe didn’t trust Kepler, he thought
    one day, Kepler would eclipse him as the
    premier astronomer of his time.
    Kepler’s Theory
    • Kepler believed in the Copernican System,
    which placed the sun directly in the center of the
    planets orbits.
    • Kepler realized Aristotle was wrong when he
    said that the orbits of planets were circular. In
    the system Copernican assumed they were
    circular also.
    • Kepler proved that the theory was not wrong but
    the shape of the orbit was, the orbits were
    flattened circles, also known as ellipses.
    First Law of Planetary Motion
    • Kepler’s first law stated that the sun
    was not the center of planet’s orbits
    but at one focus.
    • Which means the sun’s distance is
    constantly changing.
    Equal Area Law of Planetary Motion

    • The line joining the planet to the Sun


    sweeps out equal areas in equal times as
    the planet travels around the ellipse.
    • The planet moves faster when it is closer
    to the sun.
    • 2 parts: the perihelion and the aphelion
    Harmonic Law of Planetary Motion
    • The ratio of the squares of the
    revolutionary periods for two planets is
    equal to the ratio of the cubes of their
    semimajor axes.
    • Kepler's Third Law implies that the period
    for a planet to orbit the Sun increases
    rapidly with the radius of its orbit.
    • P represents the planet’s period of
    revolution
    • R represents the planets axis’
    Interactive Sites
    • Kepler's First Law

    • Simulation of Orbit
    Bibliography
    • "Johannes Kepler: the Laws of Planetary
    Motion." Johannes Kepler: the Laws of Planetary
    Motion. 15 May 2006
    <http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/
    kepler.html>.
    • Spaulding, Nancy E. Earth Science. Dallas:
    McDougal Littell, 1999. 405-406.
    • Porter, Roy, and Marilyn Ogilvie. Dictionary of
    Scientists. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. Great Brittain: Helican,
    2000. 554-557.

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