Heliocentric
look it up on dictionary.com :P Dictionary sources don't give a synonym for heliocentric, they give another term for it: The Copernican Model.
That would be the moon. We've never thought of it that way ... the only object whose status didn't change between the geocentric and heliocentric model. Thanks for showing it to us.
The Earth-centered solar system was thought to be sun-centered in the 16th century by astronomers such as Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus published his model in 1543, proposing that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the solar system. This heliocentric model eventually gained acceptance over the previously held geocentric model.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The sun-centered universe model is known as the heliocentric model, with the Sun as the center around which the planets orbit. This model was proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century, challenging the prevailing geocentric model that placed Earth at the center of the universe.
No! It is heliocentric, or sun centered.
Heliocentric means sun-centered.
a sun centered model
The solar system.
"Helio-" comes from the Greek word for "Sun". "centric" means "centered". So "heliocentric" means "Sun-centered".
The Heliocentric theory.
Heliocentrism
Copernicus
a sun centered solar system
look it up on dictionary.com :P Dictionary sources don't give a synonym for heliocentric, they give another term for it: The Copernican Model.
The word for earth-centered is geocentric,
copernicus