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First, recall that planets orbit the sun, not the other way around. Secondly, the term electron cloud is used to describe the body of electrons that orbit the nucleus of an atom. To answer your question as succinctly as possible, the analogy of planets orbiting the sun is one of the best to consider when thinking about the orbit of electrons
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What is the name of a body in orbit around the sun?
Our Earth is a body that is in orbit round the Sun.
What is the approximate compression of the earths orbit around the sun?
The Earth's orbit is almost circular. Technically, the "eccentricity" of the orbit is about 0.0167.
How do you place a satellite in earth orbit around sun?
It would need to be launched into a tangent plane parellel to that of the earth's orbit around the sun, with the same speed of rotation around the sun
What is the meaning of the orbit of the earth?
the route it is going around the sun
Do Comets orbit Earth the way the moon orbits Earth?
no, comets do not orbit Earth. If comets did orbit Earth, it would be Earths Moon's, but comets orbit the kuiper belt at the edge of the Solar System. Some times comets hit each other and get knocked out of their orbit and possibly hit a planet.
Are electrons are found inside the nucleus?
No, they are directly found outside of the nucleus in the electron cloud.
Which takes longer to orbit the sun oort cloud or kupiter belt?
The Oort cloud is generally much further out than the Kuiper belt, so Oort cloud objects will generally take a lot longer to orbit our sun.
Why don't electrons orbit around the atoms nucleus like planets orbit the sun?
do electrons orbit the nucleus like plantes orbit the sun?
What does Oort cloud mean?
The Oort cloud is a theoretical and incredibly vast mass of comets that are believed to orbit the sun at great distances.
Which celestial bodies orbit the Sun?
the asteroid belt, the kuiper belt, and the oort cloud.
Does the Andromeda galaxy have a sun?
The Andromeda Galaxy does not orbit a sun as a planet does; it is an immense cloud consisting of as many as 1 trillion stars, each of which can be considered a sun.
What in an atom orbits the nucleus?
Electrons orbit the nucleus, loosely speaking; they do not really orbit the same way that planets orbit the sun, they actually spread out into a cloud that surrounds the nucleus.
How scientists think the solar system formed.?
They believe a large gas cloud in space was condensed into what we now call the sun. Chunks of this cloud flew into orbit around the sun and eventually condensed into planets.
The solar system contains only the sun planets and satellites?
It also contains asteroids and comets, which technically are not satellites as they do not orbit a planet, but orbit the sun in the asteroid belt, the Kuyper belt, and the Oort cloud.
What is the Paths around the Nucleus called?
Electrons are said to occupy orbitals, around the atomic nucleus. They do not actually orbit in the manner that planets orbit the sun; they spread themselves out, as an electron cloud, and surround the nucleus rather than moving in an orbit.
What is the hazy layer that surrounds a comet and nucleus?
The "coma".
Why do electrons and planets spin instead of just falling into the sun or nucleus?
Electrons in orbit around a nucleus, and planets in orbit around the sun both have energy which keeps them in orbit. In the case of a planet, that energy is in the form of angular momentum. In the case of an electron the energy is a form of electromotive force. In either case, if the energy is not great enough to maintain the orbit, the planet or electron will fall out of orbit. This is not often seen in the case of planets, but is fairly common in the case of electrons; when an electron falls into the nucleus, it causes a form of radioactive decay.
