Does the eccentricity of the orbit increase or decrease as youshorten the initial distance of the planet from the star? Why wouldthis be the case? (Based on my data the eccentricity of orbitdecreased with shorter initial distances between the planet andstar. Please explain why that is. Data is shown below)
Trial | Initial distance (thousand miles) | d (thousand miles) | c (thousand miles) | T (days) | Ti2/T02 | di2/d02 | eccentricity |
0 | 91500 | 186000 | 185950 | 365 | | | 0.02 |
1 | 75000 | 128045 | 126422 | 210 | 0.331 | 0.326 | 0.16 |
2 | 62384 | 96656 | 91582 | 136 | 0.139 | 0.140 | 0.30 |
3 | 5000 | 69009 | 62203 | 83 | 0.052 | 0.051 | 0.43 |
