Question

A year is the time it takes a planet to complete one orbit. use your data to estimate the year length for each planet. use time units of earth years or earth months. why does it take the outer planets so long to orbit the sun? try to come up with 2 reasons.

Answer 1

The planets of the solar system has the orbiting time.

Mercury-  88 days, Venus-225 days, Earth- 365 days, Mars-687 days, Jupiter- 12 years, Saturn- 29 years, Uranus-  84 years, Neptune- 165 years, Pluto- 248 years.

What is solar system?

Solar system consists of all the planets and the most importantly the center of the solar system is Sun.

Sun is the main focus of the solar system. It emits high temperature light rays on the planets which in turn emit lights and be visible.

Outer planets take longer to orbit the sun because the gravitational pull is weaker as shown in the inverse square law.

The outer planets very far away from the Sun, means that they have more distance to cover in their orbit.

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