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A planet's average distance from the sun is also what part of the orbital ellipse?
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The semi-major axis.
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The relationship between the average distance of a planet from the sun and the planets orbital period is described by what?
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What are the first 5 planets of the sun?
Starting at the Sun, and working outwards by average orbital distance, the planets of the Solar System are.... # Mercury # Venus # Earth # Mars # Jupiter # Saturn # Uranus # Neptune
Which planet s orbital shape would be most similar to Jupiters orbital shape?
Jupiter's orbit is an ellipse with an eccentricity of 0.048, which means that it looks like a circle with the Sun off-centre by an amount equal to 0.048 times the average radius. Uranus has an eccentricity of 0.047 and that is the closest among the other planets.
How do the orbital inclinations of the inner planets compare with those of the outer ones?
The average orbital path of the planets forms the elliptic plane. The two inner planets have the greatest deviation from the path, with Mercury at 7.01 degrees and Venus at 3.39 degrees.
The type of path planets take?
Ellipse
The relationship between the average distance of a planet from the sun and the planets orbital period is described by what?
AUs
What is Mars planet position?
Considering the nine known planets including Pluto, Mars is the one with the fourth smallest average orbital distance from the sun.
What are the first 5 planets of the sun?
Starting at the Sun, and working outwards by average orbital distance, the planets of the Solar System are.... # Mercury # Venus # Earth # Mars # Jupiter # Saturn # Uranus # Neptune
At what distance from the Sun would a planets orbital period be 3 million years?
At what distance from the Sun would a planet's orbital period be 3 million years?
Are the planets in your solar system about the same distance apart?
No because the distance between them are always changing. If you were trying to ask if the orbital paths of all the planets about the same distance apart then the answer is still no. The distance from each orbital path varies from each planet to the next. The orbital path of Neptune and Pluto cross one another so this also answers the question, no.
Which planet s orbital shape would be most similar to Jupiters orbital shape?
Jupiter's orbit is an ellipse with an eccentricity of 0.048, which means that it looks like a circle with the Sun off-centre by an amount equal to 0.048 times the average radius. Uranus has an eccentricity of 0.047 and that is the closest among the other planets.
Which is the six planet of the sun?
Of the eight (or nine) planets so far known to orbit the sun, Saturn is the one whose average orbital distance from the sun is the sixth smallest.
Who stated that planets revolve around the sun in an ellipse?
Johannes Kepler stated that the planets revolve around the sun in an ellipse.
Why do planets differ in their orbital speed?
Because according to Kepler's laws the orbital speed of a planet is proportional to the square root of the reciprocal of the distance: v = d-½.
How do the orbital inclinations of the inner planets compare with those of the outer ones?
The average orbital path of the planets forms the elliptic plane. The two inner planets have the greatest deviation from the path, with Mercury at 7.01 degrees and Venus at 3.39 degrees.
What are the member of the solar system thst follow or move to its orbit?
All massive objects in the solar system feel the gravitational influence of their primary and most follow an orbital path around it - the majority of the mass orbiting the Sun, including planets, asteroids, comets, etc. A common orbital path, such as the planets follow, is shaped like an ellipse with the Sun at the ellipse's focus. Moons which orbit planets follow a smaller orbital path around their primary (for example, the Earth's Moon follows a path around Earth which it completes in about a month). If objects felt mutual gravitational pull of another object but did not have sufficient relative orbital momentum, they would collide.
The type of path planets take?
Ellipse
