What is the name of the path that a body follows as it revolves around another body?

Answer 1

Revolve can have two meanings. In this instance, the answer is orbit. Revolve can also have the meaning of an object spinning on it's axis. In the solar system, planetary objects spin on their axes as they orbit around the Sun. Most objects smaller than planetary objects probably also have rotational properties along with their orbital motion.

Edit: Astronomers use the word "rotation" for axial spin.

Answer 2

It is called an orbit. The object smaller in mass will orbit around the object of larger mass, however two objects of similar mass can orbit each other, where they will basically orbit around a central point. That point is closer to the object with the larger mass.

Even with two objects drastically different in mass, such as a planet and a star, will affect each other's position, for instance, one method for finding planets is the wobble of a star caused by the planet -- pretty much the same concept in the above paragraph, except the star is barely affected.

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Answer 3

The path that a body follows as it revolves around another body is called an orbit.

Answer 4

All object in freefall travel along a path that is a conic section.

Answer 5

The path (its orbit) is always an ellipse.

Answer 6

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Orbit.
That is an orbit.

Answer 7

The curved path followed by a satellite as it revolves around an object is called an orbit.

The orbit can be circular or elliptical.

Answer 8

If it is gravitationally bound to a periodic path it is called an orbit.

If it is not it is called a trajectory.

Answer 9

Yes, this is what an obrit is in simple terms.

Answer 10

An elliptical path.