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Is the motion of a planet traveling around the sun called a rotation or a revolution?
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The spinning of the earth around its axis is called?
The spinning of Earth around its axis is called rotation
What is Saturn's rotation time around the moon?
Saturn does not orbit the moon, it orbits the sun. This is called its revolution, not its rotation. Saturn's period of rotation on its axis is 10 hours 33 minutes. Its period of revolution around the sun 29.45 years.
What is rotation in space?
The earths movement around the sun is called as revolution and the earth's motion within itself in its orbit is called as rotation. when the earth rotates its spinning in circles -around and around- and when it revolves its moving around the sun so rotation is when something spins in circles
What do you call the earth's motion around the sun?
It could be called a rotation, orbit, revolution, etc...
What is the time that a planet takes to make a complete revolution around the sun is called?
Period of rotation
Is a orbit called a rotation?
The completion of one orbital trip around a 'central body' is called one "revolution". Staying in one place but spinning around yourself one whole time is called one "rotation".
Movement of one body around another body?
Revolution. turning by itself at a point about its own axis is called rotation, turning around over other body's axis is called Revolution
When a planet spins on its axis this is called?
rotation (as opposed to orbiting, which describes the earth's movements around the sun)
Is one orbit called a rotation?
The completion of one orbital trip around a 'central body' is called one "revolution". Staying in one place but spinning around yourself one whole time is called one "rotation".
When periods of the moons rotation and revolution are equal what is it called?
It is called synchronous rotation when the rotation and orbit take the same amount of time.
What is it called when the Earth travels all the way around the Sun?
When the Earth goes all the way around the sun, it is called a revolution. This takes about 364.25 days.this is right revolution is the word or orbit or a lap
What are the two kinds of movements made by planets?
Planets generally move in 2 ways:Revolution - they spin around their own center (this is what makes the Earth have a day.)Orbit - they spin around a star (Earth spins around a star called our Sun.) This in part causes our yearly seasons.
