Assertion: terrestrial planet's orbit | /r/HasProperty | eccentric
Facets:
value: systematically
type: DEGREE
value: highly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Because the orbit of Mars is eccentric, the magnitude at opposition from the Sun can range from about −3.0 to −1.4.
text: In latter instances, the gravitational effects will be negligible on a planet orbiting an otherwise suitable star and habitability potential will not be disrupted unless the orbit is highly eccentric (see Nemesis, for example).
text: As a result, most of the original population of embryos and planetesimals eventually leaves the asteroid belt region by acquiring orbits that are eccentric enough to collide with the Sun or cross Jupiter's orbit and be ejected on a hyperbolic orbit; a fraction of them can be accreted by the growing planets inside 2 AU, and a small number of planetesimals remain on stable orbits in the belt (see Figure 2 for an illustration of this process).
text: The first simulations of the terrestrial planet accretion process using modern integration techniques (Agnor et al. 1999; Chambers 2001; Chambers & Wetherill 1998, 2001) used as initial conditions a set of a few tens of planetary embryos and produced planets on orbits that were systematically too eccentric and inclined.