Assertion: solar system's orbit | /r/HasProperty | circular
Facets:
value: nearly
type: DEGREE
value: perfectly
type: DEGREE
value: pretty
type: DEGREE
value: except mercury
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The orbits of the planets are nearly circular, but many comets, asteroids, and Kuiper belt objects follow highly elliptical orbits.
text: The orbits of Solar System planets are nearly circular.
text: Some orbits, like those of the planets near the Sun, are almost circular.
text: Some orbits are nearly circular and some are more elliptical (egg-shaped).
text: The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury are very nearly circular.
text: The orbits may be pretty circular or they may be very elliptical.
text: The planets would condense from small clouds developed in, or captured by, the 2nd cloud, the orbits would be nearly circular because accretion would reduce eccentricity due to the influence of the resisting medium, orbital orientations would be similar because the small cloud was originally small and the motions would be in a common direction.
text: And if both orbits were perfectly circular, then each solar eclipse would be the same type every month.
text: No planet's orbit is perfectly circular, and hence the distance of each varies over the course of its year.
text: In Figure 25.5, you can see that the orbits of the planets are nearly circular.