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What is the eccentricity of the earth's orbit around the sun?

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The eccentricity of earth's orbit is 0.016710219. This is a measure of how elliptical the orbit is. Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, but the eccentricity shows that it is not a very pronounced ellipse, either.
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