Yes, the moon's orbit is elliptical. It has some eccentricity to it (e = 0.0549). The measure of eccentricity is done to give astronomers an idea of how "out of round" a body's orbit about a center is, and it can vary between e = 0 for a perfect circle (no eccentricity), on out to e = 1 for the longest, skinniest ellipse you can immagine (infinite eccentricity).
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Further to that correct answer, when the eccentricity is small, as it is for the planets (except Mercury), the orbit is very nearly circular, and the eccentricity measures how far off-centre the Sun is.
For example the Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of 1/60 and a radius of 150 million kilometres. The Sun is offset from the centre by 150/60 million km, or 2.5 million km.
The maximum diameter of the elliptical orbit is 300 million km, while the minimum diameter is 299.96 million km, so there is virtually no 'squashing' of its circular shape.
The Moon's orbit is elliptical (oval) and varies from circular by about 10%. Its perigee is about 362,000 kilometers and the apogee about 405,000 kilometers.
The moon orbits the earth, not the sun.
If you did draw the path the moon actually follows around the sun it would look very much like a pattern drawn with a SpiroGraph Toy!
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No planets orbit around Mars. There are two moons that orbit around Mars.
Force of Gravity, i think.
Yes, most planets do have moons that orbit around them. In our own solar system, six out of eight planets have moons, and the dwarf planet Pluto also has moons. Only the two innermost planets, Mercury and Venus, do not have moons.
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No. The moon's orbit is tilted by about 5 degrees relative to Earth's orbit around the sun. This is why we do not see eclipses every month.
27 moons orbit Uranus that we know of
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Most moons orbit close enough to their planets that the planet's gravity would render any orbit around a moon unstable in the long term.
No planets orbit around Mars. There are two moons that orbit around Mars.
No, planets orbit around the sun. There are over 60 moons that orbit around Jupiter though.
There are no known moons in orbit around Venus.
169 moons.
There are 180 moons in our solar system.