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What is Keplers second law?
Kepler's second law states that as a planet orbits its star, it sweeps out equal areas in equal times.
What is the path a planet takes to orbit another planet called?
We call that path the "orbit" of the orbiting body. Note: You would not ever see a planet orbiting another planet. At least, if you did, you would not call them both planets.
What three things keep the planets in their orbit?
A planet is kept in its orbit because the Sun's gravitational attraction on it produces acceleration towards the Sun, which exactly balances the force, by Newton's laws of motion. An object that is travelling along in a curved path is accelerating to the side, according to Newton's theory, and in a stable orbit this can go on for ever without the energy ever diminishing.
Who was the first person to go to another planet?
No human has ever set foot on another planet
Who was the first American to orbit the sun?
No human has ever orbited the sun, unless you count living on planet Earth as it orbits the sun.
If the Earth came into orbit of another bigger planet would the Earth the be a moon?
yes, if the earth was in orbit around another planet, it would be a moon. However, it wouldn't "come into" orbit around another planet, that's pretty much impossible. a trajectory change like that would kill all life on earth anyway, so it's not something humans will ever witness.
Is vulcan a real planet or is it just hypothetical and proved wrong?
Vulcanwas a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. In an attempt to explain peculiarities of Mercury's orbit, in the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet, which he named Vulcan. No such planet was ever found, and Mercury's orbit has now been explained by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity
What was the first spaceship ever made?
The first man made object to orbit the earth was Sputnik 1. Launched by the Russins in 1957
A minor planet or planetoid?
Minor PlanetsThe term minor planet is still used, but after reclassification in 2006 these are now generally referred to as dwarf planets. Dwarf planets orbit the sun, but are not satellites, that is to say that they do not orbit another planet, since then they would be classified as moons. They are big enough to hold an ellipsoid shape under their own gravity (like a squashed sphere), but have not cleared their orbit of other objects. That is to say that at the same distace out, there is a significant amount of other matter that is not part of the dwarf planet.
Why does the Earth have an elliptical orbit around the sun?
I'll assume you mean: "... as opposed to a circular orbit". That is caused by the fact that for a circular orbit, a planet needs a VERY PRECISE SPEED. Change the speed slightly (at a particular point in the orbit), and the orbit immediately becomes elliptical.
Has a man ever set foot on Pluto?
No, no man has ever set foot on Pluto. Pluto is a distant dwarf planet in our solar system, and the only spacecraft to have visited it so far is NASA's New Horizons probe, which conducted a flyby in July 2015.
What planet did Sally ride travell to?
No human being has ever been to any planet other than Earth. Twelve male astronauts landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972, and all of the other people who have ever been launched into space went nowhere but Earth orbit.
