When Johannes Kepler developed his laws for the movement of planetary bodies, one of the laws stated that the orbits of the planets about the sun are:

Circular

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Elliptical

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Parabolic

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Sinusoidal

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Straight lines

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Solution

The correct option is A Elliptical
Kepler's first law of planetary bodies states that every planet revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit , and sun is situated at one focus of ellipse .

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