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Keplerian motion

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Keplerian motion [ke′plir·ē·ən ′mō·shən]
(astronomy)
Orbital movement of a body about another that is not disturbed by the presence of a third celestial body.
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Although the relative sizes and distances of the objects were shrunk and scaled, the Keplerian motion was kept unchanged and at the true relative rates.
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They find Keplerian motion in a disk extending to 500 astronomical units (500 times the earth's distance from the sun, or about 50 billion miles) out from the star.
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