what is an orbit
This is like the Pluto-Charon system. An orbit is the path that an object takes in space when it goes around a star, a planet, or a moon. It can also be used as a verb. For instance: âThe earth orbits around the Sun.â The word ârevolvesâ has the same meaning, but 'rotates' is the spin of the object.saac Newton discovered that gravity controls the orbit of the planets and moons. Since a satellite is an object in space that revolves around another object, the earth is a satellite of the sun, just like the moon is a satellite of the Earth!