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Its means that if there is a planet, for example: Earth, The Earth is surrounded by the moon....so its actually means that a planet is surrounded by something else/A Planet

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Planets orbit around the Sun and moons orbit around planets. The gravity is what keeps them in their orbit. Moon of an object that orbits a planet.

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to orbit around an object mean to go around that object over and over and over again, folowing the same path

To orbit around an object is to revolve around an object.

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To revolve around it.

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Q: When a celestial body moves in an orbit around another celestial body?
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What moves around another object in an orbit?

That is called a satellite.


What are Celestial bodies which orbit around a planet?

These are known as moons.


Why is there a difference in how many days it takes to see all the moon phases and how long it takes to revolve around the earth?

That is because the Moon's orbit is not exactly circular. Any orbit of one object around another is an ellipse; in this case, when the Moon is closer to Earth, it moves faster; when it is farther away, it moves slower.


What is the definititon of orbit?

An "orbit" is the path traced as one body moves round another body under the influence of gravity.


What type of celestial object does your planet orbit?

A star.

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When did man discover the sun moves along its celestial orbit?

The sun does not move along a celestial orbit. Planets move along a celestial orbit around the sun. The planet, the sun, the milkyway galaxy and the rest of the galaxies are circling the universe. Q: When did man discover this?


What moves around another object in an orbit?

That is called a satellite.


What is the elliptic path of one celestial body around another called?

That's called an "orbit".


What is the path an object takes as it moves around another object?

An orbit.


What is an orbit in outer space?

pathway that a celestial body follows. Planets, comets, asteroids orbit the Sun. Moons orbit their planets. The Solar System orbits the Galactic Center.It is the imaginary pathway that a body in space follows as it moves around another body. The earth and the other planets orbit the sun, and various moons orbit their host planets.


What does celestial orbit mean?

For example, the orbit (movement) of earth around the sun.


What is the thing that moves in an orbit around something?

An object that orbits around another - is called a satellite.


The path that an object takes every time it moves around another body?

an orbit


What are Celestial bodies which orbit around a planet?

These are known as moons.


What is a sattellite?

An object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body.


What is the path of a celestial body in its revolution around other?

It is the orbit. For example, the Earth is in orbit round the Sun.


Does earth move around the sun in an orbit or an eliptical orbit?

The earth moves around the sun in a elliptical orbit.