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Orbital Geometry for Mission Planning
In your role as a technical documentation specialist for a space exploration agency, you are updating a training manual for new flight controllers. You must describe the fundamental geometry of a planet's path around the Sun. State the specific name of the geometric shape that planets follow in their orbits and specify the exact location of the Sun relative to that shape.
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