And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
(Genesis 1:14) KJV
The inner and outer planets have elliptical orbits because they orbit the Earth-sun binary system. Binary system? That’s cool, there’s one of those in Star Wars, right? Tatooine? Binary sunset?
Star Wars has an accurate cosmology in a fictional universe. Popular science (SciPop) has a fictional cosmology in the real universe. The irony of ironies.
Inner Planets
Mercury and Venus have elliptical orbits which have one focus inside the orbit (f2 the Sun) and one focus outside the orbit (f1 the Earth).
Outer Planets
The outer planets have elliptical orbits which have both foci inside them. With this arrangement it’s impossible to tell if Earth orbits the Sun or vice versa.
Notice that in the heliocentric part of the above .GIF (left side) there aren’t elliptical orbits. Orbits around a single focus are circular. That’s what you get from heliocentricity.
October 13 – Corollary V
Kepler’s Laws
Ellipses have two foci. Like, say, the Earth (F1) and the Sun (F2).
Bible Reading: Matthew 15-17