Do all the planets in your solar system is orbit the sun?

Answer 1

Every planet that we know so far orbits a star (or another planet) with a strong gravitational pull

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While that answer was true when written, NASA scientists now speculate that there may be as many "free planets" drifting through interstellar space as there are regular orbiting-a-sun-planets. Of course, the term "free planet" is a bit of a contradiction in terms, since the International Astronomical Unions _definition_ of a planet is that it orbits a star. Perhaps we need to come up with a term to describe a "cold, solid interstellar body".

Such an object would be almost impossible to detect until a spacecraft gets close enough to be detected by its gravity or by radar. Or, perhaps, by some other detector mechanism that we have not yet invented.

Answer 2

Counter-clockwise (if viewed from above the Earth's north pole).
All of the planets revolve about the sun in a counter clockwise fashion when viewed from above the Earth's north pole.

The orbits are elliptical in shape.

The orbital speeds of the planets are slower the further you go out from the Sun, and the planets take longer to complete an orbit - their "years" are longer.

Answer 3

Technically, yes, but Pluto used to be acknowledged as a planet, until scientists decided it wasn't.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the planets the orbit the Sun. (In order from distance from the Sun).

They orbit at different rates, in different patterns.

Because Pluto doesn't orbit the Sun, and it's size, scientists believe that it's more of a rock in space that an actual planet.

Answer 4

Yes, all of the planets in our solar system are in direct orbit around our sun.

Answer 5

yes but not all comets stars and other stuffises

Answer 6

Yes I'm pretty sure all the planets in OUR solar system orbit the sun.

Answer 7

Yes all of the planets in the solar system orbit the star called Sol.

Answer 8

Yes, that's basically what "Solar System" means - the set of objects that orbit the Sun.