An asteroid moving around the Sun happens to experience only negligible forces from other objects in the solar system. The path of this asteroid will be
A) a sinusoid.
B) a parabola.
C) an ellipse.
D) a straight line.

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According to Kepler's laws of planetary motion, any object moving around the Sun under the influence of negligible forces will follow an elliptical path, with the Sun at one of the foci of the ellipse. Therefore, the correct option is C, an ellipse.

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