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The ratio of tangential velocities of a planet at the perihelion and the aphelion from the sun is 1.0339. Assuming that the planet's orbit around the sun is planar and elliptic, the value of eccentricity of the orbit is _______ (round off to three decimal places).
Correct : 0.016 to 0.018
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