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How does the orbit of each planet depends on its distance from the sun?
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The square of the time period of revolution is directly proportional to the cube of the mean distance between the planet and its Sun. T2 α R3
T = Time Period R = Length of the semi-major axis
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The speed of a planet in its elliptical orbit around the sun?
The path that planets take around the sun is called it's orbit. The gravitation pull of the sun keeps each planet in it's orbit. Each planets orbit varies in the time it takes to make one trip around the sun.
Kepler discovered that the orbit of each planet is an what rather than a perfect circle?
Kepler discovered that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse rather than a perfect circle. The planet with an orbit that is closest to a circle is Venus.
Why is the term 'eclipsing binaries' appropriate to describe binary stars?
Figuring out what mass a star has is tricky. We have to calculate things like temperature, mass, and distance, and each calculation depends on the others. When two bodies orbit each other, we can calculate their masses based on the orbital time and the distance between them. When the binaries are eclipsing each other, that helps a LOT to figure out the distance between them and their masses.
What is the Orbit of each planet?
I can tell you that it is not a circle.
The shape of the orbit of each planet is a?
Ellipse..
Each planet moves in a different orbit and at a different?
Each planet moves in a different orbit, at a different average distance from the sun, and at a different speed.
How many kilometres is Jupiter from the sun and earth?
Jupiter is 778.6x106km from the sun. It's distance from Earth depends on where each planet is in relation to one another as they orbit the sun. As such, the distance varies, from 588.5x106km to 968.1x106km.
If you leave Earth travelling toward the Sun which planet do you come to first?
It depends on where the planets are in their orbit: you may not come to any. You will come to Venus's orbit first.
The speed of a planet in its elliptical orbit around the sun?
The path that planets take around the sun is called it's orbit. The gravitation pull of the sun keeps each planet in it's orbit. Each planets orbit varies in the time it takes to make one trip around the sun.
Is an orbit why a planet is a planet?
no because stars can orbit each other
What are the orbits of a planet called?
Each planet has one orbit that is just called the orbit of . . . .
Do planets collide when the distance of the planets from the sun change?
The distance of the planets from the sun does not change because of the gravity surrounding each planet is pulling them into continuous orbit.
What is the orbit for each planet?
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Do planet revolve around the sun at different distance?
Yes, as long as you mean Orbit. Orbit and Revolve are two different things. Each planet does both. It revolves, Earth does this once every day. It Orbits the sun once each Year. Yes, each planet has it own orbit as it goes round. It stays at the same distance, give or take a bit. That is why the inner planets always seem to stay near the Sun in the sky, while each outer planet can go round behind us (opposition) when it appears at its brightest in the midnight sky.
Kepler discovered that the orbit of each planet is an what rather than a perfect circle?
Kepler discovered that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse rather than a perfect circle. The planet with an orbit that is closest to a circle is Venus.
Why is the term 'eclipsing binaries' appropriate to describe binary stars?
Figuring out what mass a star has is tricky. We have to calculate things like temperature, mass, and distance, and each calculation depends on the others. When two bodies orbit each other, we can calculate their masses based on the orbital time and the distance between them. When the binaries are eclipsing each other, that helps a LOT to figure out the distance between them and their masses.
The shape of the orbit of each planet is an?
Elliptical
