Question

Answers to this lab plz “Tracking Mars”

Tracking Mars Summing Up 1. Place the point of your compass on the position of the sun and place the pencil on the first point of the plotted orbit of Mars. Draw a circular orbit with that radius. Does that circle match the orbit of Mars? If not, describe the differences. 2. Does your plot agree with Kepler's finding that the orbit is an ellipse? 3. During what month are the orbits of Mars and Earth closest?

Answer 1

The compass makes a circular orbit but actual orbit as mars is elliptical. Our plot is circular so it is not agree with kepler's orbit. There is no specific month to earth and mass orbits are near but in 2018 They are most near july.