what is the 'orbit of the earth' mean
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An orbit is the path that an object takes in space when it goes around a star, a planet, or a moon. ... For instance: “The earth orbits around the Sun.” The word 'revolves' has the same meaning, but 'rotates' is the spin of the object. Many years ago, people thought that the Sun orbits in a circle around the earth.
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In orbital mechanics, assumed as your question’s reference, orbiting a body is to have centrifugal force equal and opposite of gravitational attraction of the two bodies. Actually that describes a circular orbit. An elliptical orbit results when these forces are out of steady balance, but average to that overall balance.
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