The motion is an orbit.
The two bodies take up elliptical orbits about their common centre of mass.
When one body is far more massive, like the Sun, it hardly moves and the lighter
object (a planet) does all the dashing about.
An orbit.
It is an orbit.
The circular path is known as an orbit.
Isaac Newton discovered that all bodies in motion continue in a straight line unless acted on by an extenal force. The voyager in space would travel in a straight line unless she entered the gravitational field of a star or other massive body. Then her motion would be deflected, and depending on her velocity as she came under the influence of the massive body, she would then follow a parabola or fall into the gravity well. Her motion would be much more complex if the body whose mass attracted her were itself made up of two or more massive bodies.
gravity
The motion of a body that travels around another body in space is called orbiting or revolution. The body that is being orbited is typically much larger and exerts a gravitational force that keeps the orbiting body in motion around it. This motion follows a specific path determined by the balance between the gravitational force and the velocity of the orbiting body.
Orbit is the path that a body follows as it travels around another body in space.
Revolution is the motion of a body that travels around another body in space;one complete trip along an orbit. Rotation is the spin of a body on its axis.
revolution
satellite
An orbit.
revolution
revolution
The motion of a body along a path around some point in space is called circular motion. This type of motion involves the body moving in a circular path with a constant speed. The centripetal force acts towards the center of the circle, keeping the body in its circular path.
An orbit.
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Orbit is the path