What is the path taken by the plants tog
round the sun called?
Answers
Answer:
orbit
Explanation:
The planets revolve around the sun in elliptical path known as orbit. These orbits were well defined by an astronomer Kepler. He formulated three laws which are known as Kepler's laws of planetary motion. It states that all the planets move around the sun in orbit.
Answer:
Explanation:
The path in which the planets move around their host/parent star is called an ‘ORBIT’.
An orbit as an elliptical path in which the planets travel with certain velocity around its host star, due to the gravitational effect of the star. If a body keeps moving around another massive body, then the less massive body is said to be orbiting the other.
When a planet orbits a star in an elliptical path, then star would generally be located at one of the foci of the ellipse, drawn by joining the locus of the planet moving around it. As the star is located at a focus, the planet will not stay a constant distance from the star. The longer distance is called ‘Aphelion’ and the shorter distance is called ‘Perihelion’.