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you mean spherical and it is because all bodies have gravity which pulls evenly from every direction and a sphere is the most efficient shape to store matter
because gravity forces them into this shape.

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What shape do planets trace as they orbit around the sun?

Planets orbit the sun in the shape of an ellipse, which is an elongated circle similar to an oval. When it was first discovered that the Sun is the center of the solar system, it was thought that all the planets had a circular orbit, but the calculations didn't fit.


Do planets and moons have stars?

On the contrary! A star has planets, which circulate it. And planets have moons. Stars do not circle planets.


How do earth and other planets move in a geocentric model?

The traditional model was that they moved in "epicycles", which is basically a point on a circle, which both rotates, and revolves around another circle.Since the planets actually move around the Sun in ellipses, this model is not entirely accurate.


What is the movement of earth and the other eight planets around the sun?

The most common type of orbit is a circle but depending on the size, mass, density of that planet and the orbit of others but the orbit so far found by Astromoners and Scientists alike are all circle based.In there title don't you mean What is the movement of earth and the other eight seven planets and many dwarf planets around the sun?


What planet orbits around the sun?

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune in that order The order is often remembered by "My Very Earthly Mother Just Sat Upon Needles" Where the first letter of each word in the mnemonic corresponds to the first letter of the planets in the order of distance from the sun. Note: no planets orbit the sun in a perfect circle, but a shape close to a circle (more like an oval), that is called an ellipse.

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How does planets circle around the Sun?

Planets circle in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.


What is the name of the circle that the planets go around?

If you mean the trajectory of the planets around their parent stars, it is called the orbit, and it is not a circle but an ellipse


Who believed that the sun and the planets circle around the sun?

me !


The earth and all the planets does what around the sun?

Circle around the sun some say the sun circles the planets but it does not


Which of these terms means a complete circle around the sun?

The planets revolve around the sun. The planets rotate on their own axis.


The sun and all of the bodies that circle around it including planets and moons make up the?

The sun and all of the bodies that circle around it including planets and moons make up the solar system.


What is planet Jupiter's orbit?

Jupiters orbit is a imaginary circle that the planets circle around that is how we count years.


What planets orbit Jupiter?

Jupiters orbit is a imaginary circle that the planets circle around that is how we count years.


Who put the idea that the earth and the planets circle around the sun?

Nicolaus Copernicus


Why are the moons near the planets?

Are you an idiot? Seriosuly, you don't know why moons circle around planets? GO BACK TO SCHOOL IDIOT.


Do the outer planets circle the inner planets?

All planets circle the CEntral Star. So in a way outer planets almost circle inner planets but the Star is at one focus of the planets' orbits so it is more proper to say that planets orbit stars.


Do planets have children?

No Moons that circle around the planets are their children. Mercury and Venus don't have any children because they hate each other and all the other planets are partnered.