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Why does earth and all other planets orbit the sun?
Without the planets orbiting the sun all the planets would be cold and dark
What direction would you see the planets orbiting looking down at our solar system?
Counterclockwise
What type of model of the solar system would have planets orbiting the Earth?
It is the geocentric model.
Do the stars or dwarf planets orbit planets?
No. Dwarf planets orbit stars just like planets do. Stars orbit the center of their galaxy. An object orbiting a planet would be a moon.
Are planets outside the solar system?
A solar system comprises a star (or combination of gravity bound stars) and their orbiting planets. We think the majority of stars are solar systems an we have detected planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. However in the process of forming a solar system we believe that planets my be permanently ejected from orbiting their stars and flung off into interstellar space. These planets would therefore indeed be outside any solar system.
What will happen if planets got out of their orbits?
Planets can't really get out of their orbits because of gravity; if gravity somehow stopped having an effect, the planets would continue in a straight inertial line with inertia from the point at which gravity stopped.
If the force of gravity suddenly stopped acting on the planets they would do what?
If the force of gravity suddenly stopped acting on the planets, they would continue moving in a straight line at a constant speed, following Newton's first law of motion. Without the force of gravity to pull them towards the Sun, the planets would travel in a tangential direction away from their current orbital paths.
Stars are approximately the same age as their orbiting planets?
Yes. for a given system, the age of the planets and the central star would be about the same, as the planetary disc would have formed in one go. Most of the mass would go into the central star, with the remaining material in orbit slowly developing into the planets we have today.
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.
Dwarf planets in the milky way?
No one knows. Astronomers are scanning the visible stars of our own Milky Way galaxy for planets orbiting faraway stars, but such planets would have to be nearly the size of Jupiter to be detected at such distances
Is the system of planets and other objects orbiting around our sun a good definition for the solar system?
Yes, that would be a good explanation for it.
What is the reason for the direction of revolution of the planets?
it's just random _____________________ It is not likely to be random. First, that would mean that only one [on average] in every 256 solar systems similar to ours and with 8 planets would all planets revolve (orbit) in the same direction [2 to the power 8]. More important, according to current understanding, all the planets formed from a huge 'accretion disk' of materials orbiting around the sun. It would be hard to explain that some regions of such a disk could be orbiting one way, and other sections orbiting in another. It is much more likely that the planets are continuing the original pattern of the materials in the accretion disk.
