If the speed around the sun decreases, the orbit will become more elongated and the planet will move farther away from the sun. If the speed increases, the orbit will become more circular and the planet will move closer to the sun. This change in speed can affect the length of the planet's year and the temperatures experienced.
Its Orbit.Johannes Kepler (Germany), who lived between the time of Copernicus (Poland) and Isaac Newton (England), correctly postulated that all of the sun's planets indeed revolve about the sun in orbits which have the shape of an ellipse, with the sun at one focus of the ellipse. Isaac Newton, in his Principiae Mathematica, further stated, essentially, that any planet orbiting any star, or any moon orbiting any planet, would follow an elliptical path.
No, the sun does not orbit Earth. Earth orbits around the sun.
In the case of planetary motion, the centripetal force required to keep planets in orbit around the sun is provided by the gravitational pull between the planet and the sun. This gravitational force acts as the centripetal force, keeping the planet moving in its elliptical orbit.
No, the Earth orbits around the Sun.
Mercury.
Yes. The closer an object is to the Sun, the shorter the distance it has to travel to get around it.
Of the known planets, Mercury is the one at the smallest average distance from the sun, and with the shortest orbit.
Mercury...cos it's closest therefore has the shortest orbit
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun thus Mercury has the shortest orbit duration. It takes the planet Mercury 88 days to rotate around the sun.
Mercury. It takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.
Of the known planets in the solar system, Mercury, being nearest to the sun, completes its orbit in the shortest time . . . 88 earth days.
No, the rotation of a planet on it's axis, or it's spin is not really related to the time it takes to orbit or revolve around the sun. For example, Mercury and Venus are the closest planets to the sun, yet they take a long time to rotate on their axis.
Mercury has the shortest orbit of all the planets because it is the closest planet to the Sun.
The planet Mercury has the shortest orbit time, because it is the closest to the sun.
If you mean which planet orbits the Sun the quickest it's the planet Mercury. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the closer an object is to the Sun the faster it must go around to avoid falling into the Sun.
In our solar system, the planet Mercury, being closest to the sun, has the shortest orbit, which it completes in only 88 days.