Why it is not travelling around the sun on the circle line ? why it's motion line is looking like ellipse?
2006-12-12 02:25:30 · 8 answers · asked by Shane 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The force of the earth trying to break free from the suns gravity
2006-12-12 02:29:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anarchy99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of factors: revolutional inertia of the earth, the rotation of the earth, gravity of the sun, affect of the moon and other stellar bodies. Kepler and Newton.
The only way to have a perfectly circular orbit would involve bodies that were completely evenly distributed in their mass. It's actually fascinating that the earth's orbit is as close to a circle as it is. Much more deviation, and life as we know it could not exist.
2006-12-12 02:46:38 · answer #2 · answered by brainiac5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the suns gravity fighting the gravity of all the other planets and solar bodies as well as the earth's centrifugal force
The motion is not exact so instead of a nice clean circle you get an ellipse as Earth is pulled in different directions
2006-12-12 02:35:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost all orbital paths are elliptical to some degree or another. In a multi-body system like the Solar system, it's almost impossible to get a perfectly circular orbit, because a planet or moon is constantly being perterbed (slightly) by gravitational attractions of other planets. The effects are small, but enough to nudge orbits out of perfect circularity.
2006-12-12 02:37:51 · answer #4 · answered by Keith P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do no longer ignore about that Earth has a rotation and a translational action. once you launch a rocket vertically relative to Earth it received't bypass in a immediately line in section by reality there's a horizontal area of velocity. Then there is an acceleration led to by utilizing Earth's gravitational rigidity so the trajectory in problem-free words isn't an uncomplicated one
2016-11-25 22:43:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually this is a hypothesis by which science tries to answer some of the facts not been easily explainable by the theory of earth's moving round the sun in complete circle.
2006-12-12 02:34:35 · answer #6 · answered by catchmitesh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause of Kepplers Laws, but that's old news anyway. New Physicists talk aobout zig zag paths:
http://entropulse.com/planetpath.htm
2006-12-12 02:34:48 · answer #7 · answered by morganna_f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I said it is so.
2006-12-12 02:33:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋