Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
Keller's Laws of Planetary Motion Johannes Kepler was a 16th century astronomer who established three laws which govern the motion of planets (around the sun). These are known as Kepler's law of planetary motion. The same laws also describe the motion of satellite (like the moon) around the planet (like the earth ). 1. Kepler's first law states that : The planet move around the sun, with the sun at one of the two foci of the elliptical Orbit. This law means that the orbit ( or path) of a planet around the sun is an ellipse ( oval-shaped) and not an exact circle. An elliptical part has two foci, and the sun is at one of the two foci of the elliptical path ( foci is the plural of focus). 2. Kepler's second law states that : Eac h planet revolves around the sun in such a way that the line joining the planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal interval of time. ...