Why Orbits Are Ellipses in the First Place

Orbiting is just falling and missing. The hidden reason a 1/r² force traps planets in closed ellipses — Feynman's lost lecture and friends.

Playlist by @hidden_kepler_orbits

8 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Gravity Visualized — apbiolghs
  2. Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) — minutephysics
  3. Why Doesn't the Moon Fall to Earth? Exploring Orbits and Gravity — NASA Night Sky Network
  4. Why Are Planetary Orbits Elliptical? — Science ABC
  5. Kepler’s First Law of Motion - Elliptical Orbits (Astronomy) — Socratica
  6. What If Earth Had a Large Elliptical Orbit? — What If
  7. Why do planets orbit? (With Dan Burns) — Steve Whitehead
  8. Kepler's Laws: Why Are Planetary Orbits Elliptical? — Martian Colonist