Assertion: solar system's planet | /r/CapableOf | revolve around the sun
Facets:
value: in the same direction
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in nearly circular orbits
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The planets, most of the satellites of the planets and the asteroids revolve around the Sun in the same direction, in nearly circular orbits.
text: It was only after centuries of ongoing observations and improved instrumentation that astronomers came to understand that we are in fact part a larger system of planets that revolve around the Sun.
text: Johannes Kepler, born in 1571, was the first to explain the motions of the planets in the sky, by realizing that the planets revolved around the Sun - and that their orbits were actually ellipses, not perfect circles.
text: We saw that the planets all revolve around the Sun in the same direction and approximately in the plane of the Sun’s own rotation.
text: Eight known planets, the moon, as well as comets, asteroids and other space objects, revolve around the sun.
text: The planet revolves around the sun once in a period of 11.86 Earth years.