solar orbit
Around the sun
A solar orbit is the path of a celestial body around the sun.
Earth completes one solar orbit every 365.25 days—a year.
The term distinguishes orbits around the sun from orbits around other bodies: The spacecraft entered solar orbit after leaving Earth's gravity.
- cometIcy orbiting body
- asteroidSun-orbiting rocky mass
- space probeRobotic interplanetary research vessel
- deep spaceRemote regions beyond planets
- gravityMutual mass attraction
gravitational pull · planet · aphelion · barycenter · sun · inner planets · heliocentric model · Hohmann transfer · two-body problem · perturbation · path · ellipse · retrograde motion · swing by · Earth · eccentricity · Kepler · velocity
- solar systemsun, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
- Inner Planetssurface, atmosphere, core, mantle, crust
- orbit termsellipse, trajectory, satellite, revolution, rotation
- orbital mechanicsorbital mechanics, eccentricity, inclination, apogee, perigee
- spacecraftspacecraft, starships, spaceship, Voyager 1, rocket ships
- Orbitalsorbital, atomic orbital, electron shell, subshell, 2s
motion state
solar orbitstationary
Not in motion
fixed position · geostationary · at rest · motionless · static