On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 07:12:59 UTC+1, Quadibloc wrote:
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.

Does all of this make you cough "pole dancers?" ;-)