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They orbit in an ellipsoidal fashion.
From a given starting point the planet will trace an ellipse back toi its original starting point. However, that ellipse orbit doesn't quite close up, but overlaps, hence the word. ellipsoidal'. This was first observed by Mercury's track about the Sun.
The Sun lies at one of the foci (Not focuses), of the ellipse. The other focus may be though of as a 'blind' focus. The Sun does NOT lie at the centre of the ellipose.
This ellipse can stretch to a long narrow ellipse, or 'fatten' to a nearly circular ellipose. All this occurs over thousands of years.
Have a search in Wikipedia , for Johannes Kepler and separatelt Milutin Milankovic(h).
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∙ 16y agoOne of the most remarkable features of our solar system is that nearly all of the revolutions and rotations are in the same direction. From a point high above the north pole of the solar system the planets are revolving about the sun and rotating about their axes in a counterclockwise direction. This holds true also for the asteroids. If the planets and asteroids were formed from merely random accretions the would be an even mixture of the directions of revolution and rotation. The sun itself also rotates in a counterclockwise direction. The satellites of the planets also generally revolve and rotate in a counterclockwise direction. Of the thirty something satellites only six do not do so; they are said to have retrograde motion. Of the six exceptions five are outer satellites likely to be captured asteroids.
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∙ 13y agoAll closed orbits are ellipses. That includes planets and comets around the sun,
as well as the moon and all artificial satellites around the earth.
A circle is just a special case of an ellipse. If everything about the orbit is just
exactly perfect, then it can be a circle, but that never actually happens.
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∙ 8y agoAll the planets are in their own orbits round the Sun. Every asteroid, comet and meteor and everything else in space is also in an orbit controlled by the force of gravity. All the separate objects in their individual orbits follow Kepler's laws.
Planetary orbits are very stable and any major change takes place on a billion-year timescale.
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∙ 9y agoPlanets do maintain a circular type orbit around the sun. The gravitational pull of the sun helps to keep each planet on its orbital path.
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∙ 11y agoYes, though the orbits are not perfectly circular.
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∙ 10y agoThe planets do not revolve in circular orbits around the Sun; rather their paths are elliptical in nature.
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∙ 12y agoNo, they move in an ovular motion
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The planets do circle the Sun because they can move around it when the time changes
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What shape do planets trace as they orbit around the sun?
Planets orbit the sun in the shape of an ellipse, which is an elongated circle similar to an oval. When it was first discovered that the Sun is the center of the solar system, it was thought that all the planets had a circular orbit, but the calculations didn't fit.
Who predict that the planets circle around the sun?
Copernicus was the first astronomer to come up with the idea of heliocentric cosmology (planets orbit the sun).
What is the relation between sun and planets?
The planets orbit around the sun
Is the earth's orbit around the sun a circle on an ellipse?
It is an ellipse. The orbits of all the planets are ellipses, though the orbit of Venus, while elliptical, is very close to being a circle.
What is the movement of earth and the other eight planets around the sun?
The most common type of orbit is a circle but depending on the size, mass, density of that planet and the orbit of others but the orbit so far found by Astromoners and Scientists alike are all circle based.In there title don't you mean What is the movement of earth and the other eight seven planets and many dwarf planets around the sun?
How does planets circle around the Sun?
Planets circle in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.
Do moon orbits or circles the sun?
Moons orbit around its planet while the planets orbit the Sun, therefore moons circle the Sun.
What do the planets and the sun orbit?
the sun does not move, the planets orbit around the sun idiot.
Can planets and stars orbit around the sun?
Planets orbit the sun. Stars do not.
What shape do planets trace as they orbit around the sun?
Planets orbit the sun in the shape of an ellipse, which is an elongated circle similar to an oval. When it was first discovered that the Sun is the center of the solar system, it was thought that all the planets had a circular orbit, but the calculations didn't fit.
Planets orbit around the sun but what do moons orbit?
Planets
Why do the planets orbit the sun in a circle?
The gravitational pull.
Is all planets orbit around the sun?
All planets in our solar system orbit around the Sun.
Does planets orbit around the solar system?
No, they orbit around the Sun. The planets and the Sun are all in our solar system.
Who predict that the planets circle around the sun?
Copernicus was the first astronomer to come up with the idea of heliocentric cosmology (planets orbit the sun).
Why don't planets have orbit?
All planets orbit around a sun.
Does the sun travel around the sun or do planets travel around the sun?
The planets orbit (travel) around the Sun.
