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they are termed as satellites

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What is an object in orbit around the planets?

A planet in an orbit greater than any of the others.An object in orbit around a single planet is a moon or satellite of that planet.


When a celestial body moves in an orbit around another celestial body?

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


What is the path of an object takes around a star or planet?

it is an orbit


What would happen to an object in orbit around a planet if the planet's force of gravity were stronger than the object's inertia?

The object would crash into the planet.


How can you say that the earth is a planet?

A planet - is defined as an object that has its own gravity, and is in orbit around a sun.


What path of the orbit called?

An orbit is the path of a planet, star, or satellite through space around another object. The path the orbit is simply the orbit.


What are the effects of the orbit?

The orbit is a stable curved path taken up by a planet or other object around a more massive object.


What is the meaning of the word orbit?

Orbit has the following two meanings:the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon. (noun)move in orbit around a star, planet or moon. (verb)


What would happen to an object in orbit around a planet if the planets force of gravity were stronger than the objects inertia?

The object would crash into the planet.


Does smaller planet orbit bigger planet or does bigger planet orbit smaller planet?

Planets orbit stars, not other planets. A planet-like object that orbits a planet is a moon.


Why is the moon a planet?

It doesn't count as a planet because it revolves around Earth, and therefore is a satillite of Earth, the planet. Satillites revolve around the planets, and the planets revolve around the sun.


What is the point at which a planet is at its greatest distance from the sun in its orbit?

That point is called aphelion. The related term for an object orbiting around a planet or other non-sun object is apogee.