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earth orbit

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earth orbit [¦ərth ′ȯr·bət]
(astronomy)
The elliptical motion of the earth about the sun (eccentricity 0.01675, average radius 9.296 × 107miles or 1.496 × 108kilometers) in a sidereal year.
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