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What is apsis?
An apsis is a recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church.
What is the path of a planet or a satellite called?
A satellite is a body in orbit around another lager body. A probe is a machine sent to a specific place or specific course in space. Comment: That doesn't seem to answer the question. The curved path that a satellite follows is either a circle or an ellipse
What is earth orbiting the sun?
Earth orbiting the sun is a planet that is attracted to a star.
What is the point at which a planet is at its greatest distance from the sun in its orbit?
That point is called aphelion. The related term for an object orbiting around a planet or other non-sun object is apogee.
What is any object in space that circles around another object?
An object in space that circles around another object is called a satellite. Satellites can be natural, such as moons orbiting planets, or artificial, like man-made spacecraft orbiting Earth.
What is the path a planet takes to orbit another planet called?
We call that path the "orbit" of the orbiting body. Note: You would not ever see a planet orbiting another planet. At least, if you did, you would not call them both planets.
How may moons are orbiting the planet earth?
One moon is orbiting Earth and that is called The Moon.
Is there another earth out there?
Yes mostly orbiting a red dwarf gliese 581g (pronunciation "gliza" 581g)which is orbiting a star gliese 581 a red dwarf located 22 light years. and another planet probably called as (earth' cousin) the first earth sized habitable planet called kepler186f located 490 light years orbiting a red dwarf kepler 186
How is a planet orbiting another star detected?
a planet has it's own weak gravity that pulls the star it's orbiting as it orbits, as the star gets pulled around by the planet, scientist on Earth see the star wobbling, and then they know there is a planet!
What is apsis?
An apsis is a recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church.
What is a small planet or spacecraft called?
A moon or artificial object orbiting around a planet is called a satellite.
What planet has tiny planets?
A planet doesn't "have planets". Anything orbiting a planet is called a moon, or a satellite.
What is a small spherical object that orbiting the sun?
A small spherical object orbiting the sun would be called a planet, asteroid, or comet, depending on its characteristics and orbit.
What are some moons that begin with the letter C?
Jupiter has a small moon called Cyllene, about 2 km accross. Saturn has one called Calypso. Uranus a small moon called Cordelia and another called Cupid. Perhaps the most well known moon begining with `C` is Charon, a moon of the dwarf planet Pluto.
What is a small planet going around a big planet called?
A small planet going round a big planet is called a moon. Like our moon, it is smaller than Earth - so all planets orbiting round a bigger planet is called a moon.
What is it called when the planets are orbiting the sun?
Umm... normal? Because that's part of the definition of "planet".
What do you call a lump of rock orbiting around a planet?
A lump of rock orbiting around a planet is called a moon. Moons are natural satellites that typically revolve around planets in our solar system.
