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An ellipse is an elongated circle (oval), the form of almost all orbits of planets around the Sun, and moons around planets. The points on an ellipse are equidistant from two points called foci, with the body being orbited located at one focus. The closest approach to the parent body is called periapsis (for the planets, perihelion, closest to the Sun) and the farthest apsis (for the planets, aphelion).
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Who created the modern model of the solar system by discovering that the planets move in ellipse?
Johannes Kepler.
What kind of orbits do the planets do around the sun?
An ellipse, like any planet. In the case of Earth (and the other planets in the Solar System), the ellipse is quite close to a circle (in math/astronomy terms, the ellipse has a low eccentricity).
What system is the sun center of the solar system?
The sun's mass is so much bigger than anything in our solar system that it actually pulls all of the other masses in the Milky Way to it, the planets with the bigger masses are out farther, and the smaller ones are closer, except for pluto. (because pluto's orbit is messed up due to previous momentum)
When did scientist believe your solar system formed?
The solar system is believed to have formed about 5 billion years ago, and by the way, why do you call it YOUR solar system? Do you come from a different solar system? Because if not, then it's OUR solar system.
What are procedures of a solar system project?
There are a few steps of a solar system project. You first have to study the solar system.
What is an enlongated circle in the solar system called?
An ellipse.
What is a ellipse used for?
Describe the orbit of a planet (or other body in the Solar system) about the Sun.
Who created the modern model of the solar system by discovering that the planets move in ellipse?
Johannes Kepler.
What do all members of the solar system have in common?
All members of the solar system orbit their respective central bodies in elliptical paths, with the central body at one focus of the ellipse.
What is a path followed by a planet and satellite as it circles the sun in your solar system?
The path is called an orbit, and it's shaped like an ellipse.
What was Kepter's theory of the solar system?
Tycho Brahe made very accurate observations of the solar system. Brahe's assistant, Johannes Kepler, used the observations to figure out the shape of the planets orbits. When he used circular orbits, his calculations did not fit the observations. But after years of detailed calculations, he found that the orbit of each planet is called an ellipse. An ellipse is an oval shape.
What body in our solar system do you think is the the one focus of our moons orbit?
I assume you mean "the focus of the ellipse". That's the Earth, since the Moon revolves around Earth.
What kind of orbits do the planets do around the sun?
An ellipse, like any planet. In the case of Earth (and the other planets in the Solar System), the ellipse is quite close to a circle (in math/astronomy terms, the ellipse has a low eccentricity).
Jupiter is a satellite of another object?
Yes it is a satellite of the sun, because it orbits around the Sun in an ellipse. Any planet is a satellite in our solar system because it orbits our Sun.
What is the minimum eccentricity a ellipse can have?
What does eccentricity means? But a ellipse is a word i dunno, all i know is the ecllispe the minty mint i eat every day.
What do you call the tiny part of our galaxy in our solar system?
"Our solar system." The "part of our galaxy" that's in our solar system is the solar system.
What is your solar system called?
Our Solar System is called the Solar System, Why?, what do you Aliens call it.
