Assertion: terrestrial planet's orbit | /r/HasProperty | circular
Facets:
value: nearly
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: The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury are very nearly circular.
text: If Jupiter's orbit was almost circular, the terrestrial planets should have accreted 10–20% of their mass from beyond 2.5 AU (O'Brien et al. 2006, Raymond et al. 2006), most of which should have been of carbonaceous chondritic nature.