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The eccentricity of the Earth's orbit around the sun is 0.01671123.
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Eccentricity

Eccentricity is a measure that indicates the elongation of an ellipse away from a circle.  The formula for eccentricity is:

            e=√1−(b2a2)

where a and b are the semi-major and semi-minor axes of a an ellipse respectively (see diagram).
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