An ellipse is an elongated circle (oval), the form of almost all orbits of planets around the Sun, and moons around planets. The points on an ellipse are equidistant from two points called foci, with the body being orbited located at one focus. The closest approach to the parent body is called periapsis (for the planets, perihelion, closest to the Sun) and the farthest apsis (for the planets, aphelion).
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∙ 11y agoJohannes Kepler.
An ellipse, like any planet. In the case of Earth (and the other planets in the Solar System), the ellipse is quite close to a circle (in math/astronomy terms, the ellipse has a low eccentricity).
The sun's mass is so much bigger than anything in our solar system that it actually pulls all of the other masses in the Milky Way to it, the planets with the bigger masses are out farther, and the smaller ones are closer, except for pluto. (because pluto's orbit is messed up due to previous momentum)
The solar system is believed to have formed about 5 billion years ago, and by the way, why do you call it YOUR solar system? Do you come from a different solar system? Because if not, then it's OUR solar system.
There are a few steps of a solar system project. You first have to study the solar system.
An ellipse.
Describe the orbit of a planet (or other body in the Solar system) about the Sun.
Johannes Kepler.
All members of the solar system orbit their respective central bodies in elliptical paths, with the central body at one focus of the ellipse.
The path is called an orbit, and it's shaped like an ellipse.
Tycho Brahe made very accurate observations of the solar system. Brahe's assistant, Johannes Kepler, used the observations to figure out the shape of the planets orbits. When he used circular orbits, his calculations did not fit the observations. But after years of detailed calculations, he found that the orbit of each planet is called an ellipse. An ellipse is an oval shape.
I assume you mean "the focus of the ellipse". That's the Earth, since the Moon revolves around Earth.
An ellipse, like any planet. In the case of Earth (and the other planets in the Solar System), the ellipse is quite close to a circle (in math/astronomy terms, the ellipse has a low eccentricity).
Yes it is a satellite of the sun, because it orbits around the Sun in an ellipse. Any planet is a satellite in our solar system because it orbits our Sun.
What does eccentricity means? But a ellipse is a word i dunno, all i know is the ecllispe the minty mint i eat every day.
"Our solar system." The "part of our galaxy" that's in our solar system is the solar system.
Our Solar System is called the Solar System, Why?, what do you Aliens call it.