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kepler's law of planetary motion - (astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler | ||
Kepler's law, Kepler's law of planetary motion | ||
law of nature, law the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale" | ||
astronomy, uranology the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | ||
kepler's first law a law stating that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus of the ellipse | ||
kepler's second law, law of areas, law of equal areas a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times; "Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun" |