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Old March 7th 18, 07:12 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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I was perhaps unfair. He is not exactly right.

While Venus's real orbit around the Sun is a closed ellipse, once you add
the illusory annual motion, you get open loops, just as with Mars, in the
combined apparent motion, not closed ones.