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Which of the following individuals was responsible for describing motion equations/laws for how the planets moved in their orbits?
a) isaac newton b) nicholas copernicus c) tycho brahe d)Johannes Kepler e)Galileo Galilei
Answer is D-------Johannes Kepler
In the early 1600s, Johannes Kepler proposed three laws of planetary motion. Kepler was able to summarize the carefully collected data of his mentor - Tycho Brahe - with three statements that described the motion of planets in a sun-centered solar system. Kepler's efforts to explain the underlying reasons for such motions are no longer accepted; nonetheless, the actual laws themselves are still considered an accurate description of the motion of any planet and any satellite.
Kepler's three laws of planetary motion can be described as follows: