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Kepler’s First Law: The Law of Ellipses

The path of the planets about the sun is elliptical in shape, with the center of the sun being located at one focus.

Richard Stephen Kirby

Founder of Kepler Space Institute

Bob Krone

Founding President of Kepler Space Institute. Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Philosophy.

Kepler’s Second Law: The Law of Equal Areas

An imaginary line drawn from the center of the sun to the center of the planet will sweep out equal areas in equal intervals of time

Edgar Dean Mitchell, ScD

JSP Board of Editors. Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret), Apollo 14 Astronaut, sixth person to walk on the Moon, Founder Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Sherry Bell

Provost at Kepler Space Institute.

Walter Putnam

Director at Kepler Space Institute.

Kepler’s Third Law: The Law of Harmonies

The ratio of the squares of the periods of any two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distances from the sun.

Ethel Ben-Jacob, PhD

JSP Board of Editors. Former President of Israel Physical Society; Founder Science of Bacterial Intelligence. Tel Aviv University.

Declan J. O’Donnell

JSP Board of Editors. Space law attorney, Fifty publications in Space Law and Policy, Publisher, Space Governance Journal, President, United Societies in Space, Inc.