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What is the path of an object as it revolves around another object?
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Depending on their relative masses and velocities, the path of the smaller will be a circle, or more likely, an ellipse.
An old model for this is to consider a canon mounted at the top of the globe.
Firing a shell at moderate velocities, it will fall to Earth quite soon.
At a much higher velocity it will have sufficient energy to make a circle round the globe.
At higher velocities again, it will form an ellipse.
Eventually we reach escape velocity, where the shell just continues on a giant ellipse - really, an escape.
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The curved path of one object around another?
An orbit.
The curved path in which a planet revolves around another body?
it is called an orbit. <b> YAYY </b> :]]]]]]]
What is the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space?
If the revolving continues for more than a few revolutions, then its path is an elliptical orbit. In space, orbiting cannot take place in a circular path, and the balance point between flying off into space, crashing into the bigger object, or staying in orbit only occurs in an ellipse. It doesn't have to be much of an ellipse, either.
What makes you infer that the moon revolves around the earth?
that the moon travels in a path (aka orbits) around the earth...
What is it called to travel in a closed path around an object?
To orbit the object.
What is the name of the path an objects takes when it revolves around another object?
an orbit
What do we call the path an object follows as it revolves around something else?
The path is called an orbit.
What term means the path an object takes as it revolves around the sun?
orbit
What is the path followed by a celestial body or satellite as it revolves around a more massive object?
Its orbit
What is a path that an object has as it revolves?
That is simply the "orbit".
What is path rolled by an object in space as it goes around another object?
The path is the orbit
What is the path an object around another object?
An orbit, which is an ellipse.
The path that an object takes around another object?
Orbit
What is the path an object takes as it moves around another object?
An orbit.
What is the path an object takes as it revoves around another object?
Revolution
Which type of nuclear reaction from large less stable nucei decomposing into small more stable nuclei?
the path followed by one object as it revolves around another is called
The curved path of one object around another?
An orbit.
