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Gravity and Calculus.

If you're more interested in a scale model of the solar system, a device called an "Orrery" will do it for you. An Orrery is a clockwork model of a solar system.

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Use Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion.

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Why do people study newton's laws of motion?

Engineers and Scientists use Newton's laws and their resulting equations, in order to help predict the motion of objects on the macroscopic level. They use them to predict where an object will be at a given time under certain initial conditions.


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They use a Periodic Table.


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Aristrotle


What is the planets' backwards motion in the sky called?

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Mercury and Venus are the two planets that retrograde motion around the sun.


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What is Mercury's apparent motion?

mercurys motion can be like any other planets motion


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Kepler's three laws are important because they are used to predict the positions of planets years into the future. That is a help to navigators, astronomers and people planning space voyages.


What is it called when planets move east to west?

Apparent motion of the planets.


What is the motion of one object around another?

In planetary terms, when referring to the motion of planets and moons etc. the motion is describes as orbiting. Moons are on orbit around planets, while the planets are in orbit around the sun. An orbital motion.


How does a moons motion compare to a planets motion?

They both spin on an axis.


If you know the constant velocity of a moving object what can you predict?

You can predict its motion until some force acts on it.