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What is the actual shape of the Earths orbit around the Sun?
The actual shape of the earth's orbit around the sun is horrendously complicated. Partly because the earth does not orbit the sun and also because the orbit is influenced by the the gravitational attraction of the other planets. The earth does not orbit the sun: the centre of mass of the earth-sun system is at one of the foci of an ellipse whose eccentricity is 0.0167. The eccentricity varies from 0.0034 to 0.058.
How does the shape change with increasing eccentricity?
As the eccentricity of a shape increases, the shape becomes more elongated or stretched out. For example, an ellipse with a higher eccentricity will look more like a stretched circle. In general, as eccentricity increases, the shape will deviate more from its original form and become more elongated.
The planet whose orbit has the largest tilt from the ecliptic plane is?
Uranus has the largest tilt of its axis of rotation compared to its orbit around the sun, at about 98 degrees. This means that its north pole can be pointing almost directly at the sun at certain points in its orbit.
Which planet's axis of rotation is perpendicular to the plane of its orbit?
Uranus is the planet whose axis of rotation is almost perpendicular to the plane of its orbit around the Sun. This unique orientation of its axis causes extreme seasons on Uranus, with each pole experiencing 42 years of continuous sunlight followed by 42 years of darkness.
What planets whose orbital planes lie more than 3 degrees from the plane of the sun's equator?
Mercury and Pluto.
What is the actual shape of the Earths orbit around the Sun?
The actual shape of the earth's orbit around the sun is horrendously complicated. Partly because the earth does not orbit the sun and also because the orbit is influenced by the the gravitational attraction of the other planets. The earth does not orbit the sun: the centre of mass of the earth-sun system is at one of the foci of an ellipse whose eccentricity is 0.0167. The eccentricity varies from 0.0034 to 0.058.
Which is between Venus and Mars?
The planet whose orbit is between those of Venus and Mars is Earth.
Does any planet cross the earth's orbit?
There are no planets that cross the earth's orbit. Pluto (dwarf, or minor planet) and Neptune are the only planets whose orbits cross. However there are over 100 asteroids (minor planets) that cross the earth's orbit.
What is the shape of Mar's orbit?
An ellipse, like all the planets. Just like every other object in orbit around a much larger central mass, Mars travelsin an orbit whose shape is an ellipse.But the orbit's eccentricity is only 0.094, which means it's so close to being a circlethat you can't tell the difference by looking.
Which planet is closest to eath?
Which planet is closest to Earth varies depending on where the planets are in their orbits. At different times the closest planet may be Mercury, Venus, or Mars. The planet whose orbit comes closest to Earth's is Venus.
What is the only planet whose orbit is significantly tilted with respect to the ecliptic?
The planet with the greatest inclination relative to the ecliptic is Mercury, at about seven degrees. This is over twice the inclination of any other planet (Venus comes in second at about 3.4 degrees), but even so it's not all that high: Pluto's inclination is over 17 degrees, one (of many) reasons a lot of people felt that calling it a planet was a One of These Things Is Not Like the Others situation.
Apart from mercury what other planet is closer to the sun?
No planet has been discovered yet whose average distance from the sunis smaller than that of Mercury.Mercury and Venus both orbit closer to the sun than Earth does.
How does the shape change with increasing eccentricity?
As the eccentricity of a shape increases, the shape becomes more elongated or stretched out. For example, an ellipse with a higher eccentricity will look more like a stretched circle. In general, as eccentricity increases, the shape will deviate more from its original form and become more elongated.
Is a dwarf planet a moon?
No, a dwarf planet is not a moon. A moon is a body which orbits a large body. However, dwarf planets don't orbit any larger bodies and just orbit the sun in their solar system. Most dwarf planets are failed planets that were forming, but were to close to a gas giant whose gravity messed up the formation of the planet.
Which planet is just beyond earth?
Going outwards from the Sun, the next planet in the solar system after Earth would be Mars. Going inwards from Earth towards the Sun, the next planet is Venus - whose orbit is actually closer to Earth's than that of Mars.
A satellite whose orbit is synchronized with the rotation of the earth?
That is called a geosynchronous orbit.
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.
