Assertion: solar system's planet | /r/CapableOf | orbit the sun
Facets:
value: in the same direction
type: LOCATION
value: in the same plane
type: LOCATION
value: in a circle
type: LOCATION
value: in oval-shaped paths
type: LOCATION
value: in the solar system
type: LOCATION
value: in elliptical, roughly circular orbits
type: OTHER
value: in a perpetual dance
type: TEMPORAL
value: more slowly
type: MANNER
value: conversely
type: MANNER
value: with relatively low eccentricity
type: OTHER
value: in ellipses
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Our solar system extends much farther than the eight planets that orbit the Sun.
text: Uranus and Venus are the only two planets out of the eight known planets that follow a clockwise path while orbiting around the Sun.
text: All the planets, and most other objects, orbit the Sun in the same direction that the Sun is rotating (counter-clockwise, as viewed from above Earth's north pole).
text: The planets orbit the Sun in or near the same plane, called the ecliptic.
text: Most of the planets have moons that orbit around them just as the planets orbit the Sun.
text: Eight known planets and their moons, along with comets, asteroids, and other space objects orbit the Sun.
text: These planets orbit the Sun.
text: Tycho Brahe's improved instruments made precise observations of the skies (1576–1601), and from these Johannes Kepler (1621) deduced that planets orbited the Sun in ellipses.
text: This theory has a number of problems, such as explaining the fact that the planets all orbit the Sun in the same direction with relatively low eccentricity, which would appear highly unlikely if they were each individually captured.
text: Conversely, farther planets orbited the Sun more slowly.
text: The eight planets and other bodies orbit the Sun in a perpetual dance that has been going on for nearly five billion years.
text: The eight planets all orbit the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, known as the ecliptic.
text: All eight planets orbit the Sun in elliptical, roughly circular orbits, in approximately the same plane.
text: In about 1500, Nicolaus Copernicus figured out that the planets orbit the Sun.
text: It took seventy years to convince scientists that the planets orbit the Sun.
text: Its outbound path is about 20 degrees above the plane of planets that orbit the Sun.
text: After a decade or two spent searching for planets orbiting the Sun, this is what those aliens would find:
text: Although the idea that the planets orbited the Sun had been suggested many times, it was not until the 17th century that this view was supported by evidence from the first telescopic astronomical observations, performed by Galileo Galilei.
text: In the Solar System, all the planets orbit the Sun in the same direction as the Sun rotates (counter-clockwise as seen from above the Sun's north pole).
text: Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo promoted a heliocentric model of the universe, with the sun at the center and Earth and the other planets orbiting the Sun.
text: Use the nebular hypothesis to explain why the planets all orbit the Sun in the same direction.
text: Planets orbit the sun in oval-shaped paths called ellipses, with the sun slightly off-center of each ellipse.
text: Planet X. The planet is estimated to be about 10 times the mass of Earth and to orbit the sun between 300 and 1,000 times farther than the orbit of the Earth.
text: Dwarf planets are bodies that orbit the sun that are not considered large enough to be actual planets.
text: Dwarf planets, comets and asteroids orbit the sun.
text: A planet orbits the sun, and a moon orbits a planet.
text: If gravity were a rope, connecting a planet to the sun, then the planet would have to orbit the sun in a circle.
text: You can make the balls "orbit" the magnet in a way similar to planets orbiting the sun.
text: Take our solar system for instance, where the planets orbit the sun in the same plane instead of being distributed in a spherical configuration.
text: The nine planets that orbit the sun are (in order from the Sun): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter (the biggest planet in our Solar System), Saturn (with large, orbiting rings), Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (a dwarf planet or plutoid).
text: The solar system consists of anything that orbits the sun or orbits the planets which orbit the sun.
text: Asteroids are chunks of metal and rock much smaller than the planets that orbit the sun.
text: Our Solar System has eight planets which orbit the sun.
text: All planets orbit around the sun.