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Is it true that Brahe was the first astronomer to understand that the planets orbited the sun in an ellipse?

No, Brahe did not believe in the heliocentric model; he proposed a geocentric model where planets orbited the Sun and the Sun orbited the Earth. It was Johannes Kepler who later discovered that planets orbit the Sun in an elliptical path, using Brahe's detailed observational data.


Who was the first to believe that all planets except Earth orbit the sun?

I'm not aware that any observer EVER argued that "all planets except Earth" orbited the Sun. The first person we know of to argue that the Sun was the center of things, and that the Earth orbited the Sun, was Aristarchus of Samos, a Greek astronomer and mathematician about 2400 years ago.


Who was the first European scientist to suggest that orbits of the planets were elliptical?

It was Johannes Kepler.


What scientist first stated that the paths of planets are ellipses instead of circles.?

Johannes Kepler


Which animal first orbited the moon?

No animal has orbited the moon other than man. Dogs and monkeys have orbited the earth.


Which scientist explained why planets orbit the sun and moons orbit the planets?

ANSWER Sir Isak Newton was the first person to realise that the force of gravity was universal. It is Kepler motion that describes the elliptically orbits of the planets.


What scientist first pictured the atom as having electrons orbit around the nucleus as planets orbit the sun?

Niels Bohr


Which scientist stated that planets move around the Sun in an ellipse?

Johannes Kepler was the first to state that planets move in elliptical orbits.


How old was John Glenn when he orbited the moon?

John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American to do so. He was forty at the time.


The Greek scientist Aristarchus was the first person to suggest what?

He first suggested that the Earth (and the other planets that were then known) rotated around the Sun instead of the other way around.


What was the name of John Glenn's space shuttle when he first orbited the earth?

The name of John Glenn's space shuttle when he first orbited the Earth in 1962 was Friendship 7.


Which planets did sputnik 1 go to?

None. It was launched into low-Earth orbit and stayed there until it fell back in the atmosphere and burned up.