How do planets move around the solar system?

Answer 1

Objects are attracted to other objects. now this is much more complex than that but I neither have the technical knowledge or time to truly explain all that. So because particles are attracted to each other the more mass an object has the more it pulls or attracts other objects, we call this force gravity. Objects such as planets that are orbiting other things (typically stars due to their massive size) are in a place where the force of gravity is not allowing them to escape but not entirely pulling them in.

Stars (like the Sun) and planets form from fast-swirling clouds of dust. When their force of gravity is great enough, the swirls clump together into a spherical ball. That does not make them stop spinning or stop them from orbiting the Sun.

We see that there is very little to make the spinning, orbiting planets slow their spins or orbits.

Answer 2

Description: Planets move around the Sun in elliptical orbits. Kepler was the first person to show this.

Causes: Planets have inertia which would cause them to move in straight lines

unless acted on by a force.

There is a force acting on the planets. It's the force of gravity between the planets and the Sun.

Isaac newton showed how gravitation can produce the observed elliptical orbits.

Answer 3

There are 8 planets in the solar system. All the planets move around the sun in there own orbit. All the planets move in the direction from right to left. The 8 planets according to the distance from the sun are:Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Answer 4

because the sun is the biggest object in the solar system and that means the gravitational pull is greater meaning that the planets orbit it.

Answer 5

They move around in what is known as an orbit. This route takes the form of ellipse or an oval. The planet travels round the Sun all the time.

Answer 6

The planets move in an act of gravity

Answer 7

Planets orbit the sun in a circle this is due to gravitational forces.