Are all of the planetary orbits the same?

Question

Explain the orbits in the solar system in relation to the sun?

Answer 1

No..they're all slightly different...none of them are perfect circles. They're more like ovals...and each planet is about 2 times further from the sun as it's next closest neighbor.....i.e Venus is twice as far as Mercury...Earth is twice as far as Venus....etc.

Answer 2

All of the planets' orbits are different around the sun. They are all in the solar system plane, meaning they are all horizontal. Venus' orbit is a near perfect circle. The farther a planet is away from the sun, the larger the planet's orbit. The planet takes longer to orbit the sun because of its further distance.

Answer 3

Maybe not exactly the same, but they are all similar enough. All are basically in the same plane (the "orbital plane") and all are nearly circular.

By the way, the main knock against Pluto isn't so much its size as its orbit. Pluto's orbit is much more elliptical than the orbit for the eight planets, and its orbit is tilted at a weird angle, out of the orbital plane.

Answer 4

The solar system consists of the Sun; the eight official planets, at least three "dwarf planets", more than 130 satellites of the planets, a large number of small bodies (the comets and asteroids), and the interplanetary medium. (There are probably also many more planetary satellites that have not yet been discovered.)

The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars:
The main asteroid belt (not shown) lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The planets of the outer solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet
The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury are very nearly circular. The orbits of the planets are all more or less in the same plane (called the ecliptic and defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit). The ecliptic is inclined only 7 degrees from the plane of the Sun's equator. The above diagrams show the relative sizes of the orbits of the eight planets (plus Pluto) from a perspective somewhat above the ecliptic (hence their non-circular appearance). They all orbit in the same direction (counter-clockwise looking down from above the Sun's north pole); all but Venus, Uranus and Pluto also rotate in that same sense.
The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury are very nearly circular. The orbits of the planets are all more or less in the same plane (called the ecliptic and defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit). The ecliptic is inclined only 7 degrees from the plane of the Sun's equator. The above diagrams show the relative sizes of the orbits of the eight planets (plus Pluto) from a perspective somewhat above the ecliptic (hence their non-circular appearance). They all orbit in the same direction (counter-clockwise looking down from above the Sun's north pole); all but Venus, Uranus and Pluto also rotate in that same sense.

Answer 5

All planets orbit in about the same plane. The solar system is flat. Mercury orbits the Sun very fast while more distant planets orbit more slowly according to Kepler's laws.

Answer 6

no.. each has its own.. and often they don't repeact the exact path..

it seems.. the entire system is moving.. as well.

Answer 7

no--