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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)

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Initial distance (thousand miles)

d (thousand miles)

c (thousand miles)

T (days)

Ti2/T02di2/d02eccentricity

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

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