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What do you call the period of time it takes a planet to revolve one time?
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The time it takes a planet or satellite to revolve once is called its day.
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What do you call the amount of time it takes for a planet to orbit the sun?
One round trip around the sun is called a "YEAR".
What do you call a path that the planet follows to obit around the sun?
The path that the planet follows is simply called the orbit. Orbit can mean 'to revolve around the sun' or it can be referred to as the path itself, e.g. 'Earth is following its orbit.'
Which planets had the longest time to orbit the sun?
Depends on whether or not you call Pluto a Planet. If so, yes Pluto. Which takes around 248 earth days to orbit the sun. If not, it's Neptune. Which takes 165 earth days to orbit the sun.
What do you call an old planet?
There is no possible sugested name for an old planet.
Planet in a sentence?
Mars is known as the Red Planet. When aliens speak of Earth they call it the Blue Planet.
What do you call time is takes the earth to revolve around the sun?
A year
What do you call the motion which takes 365days?
The earth takes 365 days to revolve around the sun.
What do you call the amount of time it takes for a planet to orbit the sun?
One round trip around the sun is called a "YEAR".
What do planets revolve around?
Planets orbit stars. Our planet (earth) orbits a star we call the sun.
What do you call it when the moon takes 28 days to revolve around the earth?
This is called the Lunar Month.
What revolves around the planets?
Planets revolve around Stars. The planets in our Solar system (the Earth, etc.) revolve around the Sun.
Why do they call Pluto the double planet?
They call Pluto the double planet because rather than Charon simply orbiting Pluto, the two objects revolve around their common center of mass, which lies outside of Pluto.
How long does the sun revolve?
-- The sun rotates on its axis, in periods ranging from 26 to 32 days depending on the latitude of the material doing the rotating ... since the sun is not solid, there's no reason that all of it must rotate at the same rate. -- All of the planets revolve around the sun, each one in a different amount of time. The farther a planet is from the sun, the longer it takes to revolve around it. -- It takes the Earth roughly 365 1/4 days to revolve around the sun. We call that amount of time a "year", an "año", a "shanah", etc., depending on where we live.
What do you call the time it takes for a planet to orbit a star?
revolution
What do you call the period of time does it take for a planet to turn on its own axis?
Rotational period or day
How long does it take for the earth to revolve round the sun?
In rounded numbers, 365.25636 days. It's the period of time we call a "year".
What is the path a planet takes to orbit another planet called?
We call that path the "orbit" of the orbiting body. Note: You would not ever see a planet orbiting another planet. At least, if you did, you would not call them both planets.
