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Except for Mercury (eccentricity[0]: 0.2056) and the displayed transneptunian objects Eris (0.4407(!)), Pluto (0.2488), Haumea (0.1887) and Makemake (0.1559) all other planets (including the dwarf planet Ceres (0.0758)) are pretty accurate.

Current orbital eccentricites for our plantes in ascending order:

[0.00002 (Triton)]

0.0068 (Venus)

0.0086 (Neptune)

0.0167 (Earth)

0.0472 (Uranus)

0.0541 (Saturn)

0.0934 (Mars)

[0.9951 (parabolic) (Comet Hale-Bopp)]

So, the planets eccentricities (except for Mercury) are within one order of magnitude (0.01 and 0.1) nearly circular.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity



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