Yes and no. Early models of the motions of the stars and the sun assumed that the Earth was at the center with everything going around it because, after all, that's the way it looks to us.
But the math didn't work out, and nothing the early astronomers tried could make the math work out. Finally Nicolas Copernicus, a Polish monk, tried figuring out that perhaps the Sun was in the middle, with the planets going in circles around the Sun. This was an improvement because it explained the retrograde motion of the planets better than the geocentric model did.
But the math for this didn't work out perfectly, either. Finally Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer, demonstrated that the math DID work if he assumed that the planets were traveling in ellipses.
Copernicus used only circles, a special case of ellipses. He did not work with the general ellipse.
The earth moves around the sun in a elliptical orbit.
The Earth revolves around the Sun but it tilts on its side in certain points.
The Earth follows an elliptical path around the Sun due to the gravitational attraction between the two bodies. This path is called an orbit, and it takes the Earth approximately 365.25 days to complete one full revolution around the Sun, resulting in a year.
The path Earth travels around the sun is called an orbit. This orbit is elliptical in shape, meaning it is not a perfect circle but is slightly elongated. Earth takes 365.25 days to complete one orbit around the sun.
Planets have elliptical orbits around the sun.
Elliptical
That would be an elliptical orbit.
The path that Earth takes as it revolves around the sun is called its orbit.
It doesn't. The earth orbits the sun in an elliptical fashion.
It is it's Orbit.
The imaginary elliptical path of the Earth around the Sun is called its orbit. It is not a perfect circle, but an ellipse, with the Sun located at one of the foci of the ellipse. The Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical, which means that the distance between the Earth and the Sun varies throughout the year.
An orbit is the path a planet takes around the sun. Earth's orbit is an ellipse. It takes the Earth one year to travel along the elliptical path around the sun.
The earth moves around the sun in a elliptical orbit.
gravity of the earth
The path of the Earth around the sun is called its orbit. This orbit is elliptical in shape, with the sun located at one of the two foci of the ellipse.
The Earth goes around the Sun in a path which is an ellipse. It takes about 365.25 days to go round once.
The Earth revolves around the Sun but it tilts on its side in certain points.