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Name the scientist who gave the three laws of planetary motion.


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  1. Johannes Kepler was a 16thcentury astronomer who established three laws that govern the motion of planets (around the sun).
  2. These are known as Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
  3. The same law also describes the motion of the satellite (like the moon) around the planets (like earth)

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