Kepler's laws/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Kepler's laws.

Three mathematical laws were discovered by German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), and used by him to describe the motion of planets in the Solar System, and the motion of any two bodies orbiting each other.