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What is the shape of a planets orbit and in which direction do all planets revolve?
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Planetary orbits are eliptical, that is they are shaped as elipses.
All planets revolve around the sun anti-clockwise as viewed from Earth's north pole.
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What is the shape of Saturn's orbit?
Like the other planets, Uranus has an elliptical orbit as it moves around the sun rather than a circular orbit. Uranus has an axial tilt of 99 degrees, which is a lot, considering the axial tilt of the Earth is 23.5 degrees.
Are the orbits of inner planets relatively closely spaced?
some times because we revolve in an elliptical orbit which is like the shape of an oval
What shape orbit did Kepler use for planets?
Ellipses
An oval like shape that is used to describe the orbit of planets?
Mars, and all the other planets, have oval-shaped, or eliptical, orbits.
What is the shape of the orbits of most members of the solar system?
round but some rounder than others. Every object is in an orbit which is an ellipse. The planets are in orbits which look almost exactly like circles with an offset centre, but some comets and dwarf planets have orbits with a high eccentricity.
What are three ways that the outer and inner planets are alike?
Shape, rotation-direction, and orbit-direction.
What is the shape of Saturn's orbit?
Like the other planets, Uranus has an elliptical orbit as it moves around the sun rather than a circular orbit. Uranus has an axial tilt of 99 degrees, which is a lot, considering the axial tilt of the Earth is 23.5 degrees.
Are the orbits of inner planets relatively closely spaced?
some times because we revolve in an elliptical orbit which is like the shape of an oval
What is the shape of the orbit that the planets take called?
Elliptical Orbit
Where is the sun located at one of the two in the shape of earths orbital path?
The Sun does not orbit the planets. The planets orbit the Sun. The Sun is stationary with relation to the planets' motion. The Sun does, however, orbit the Milky Way galaxy, as do the planets and everything else in the galaxy.
What is the shape of the outer planets?
Planets don't revolve around the Earth.Planets revolve around the Sun in ellipses.
What type of orbit do the planets have to revolve around the sun?
According to Keplers first law of 1618 which has not been repealed yet, the planets each move in an elliptical orbit with the Sun occupying one focus. The shape of an ellipse is described by the eccentricity. For low eccentricity such as the planets' orbits have, the orbit is very close to being a circle but the most significant difference is that the Sun is off-centre.
What is the shape of the orbit of planets around the sun?
An ellipse.
Term used for the shape of the planets orbit?
Ellipse.
What is the shape of a planetary path?
Planets orbit in an ellipse.
What shape orbit did Kepler use for planets?
Ellipses
What is Jupiter's shape of orbit and how long does it take to revolve around the sun?
2 years
