Ellipticity vs Rotation Rate




Planet
Ellipticity
Period
1/Period
Jupiter
0.0649
9.841
0.101616
Saturn
0.098
10.233
0.097723
Uranus
0.0229
17.9
0.055866
Neptune
0.017
19.2
0.052083


In the graph above, the data points from left to right are for Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter. Notice that the first three data points are almost in a straight line. Leaving Jupiter out, regression analysis on the remaining points gives the following results:

slope     1.78280946
intercept -0.076257996
rho          0.999956053

For these three planets: Ellipticity = -0.076257996 + (1.78280946)(1/Period)


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