wiki Word: Orbit                                                                                                                      

Definition: The path that an object takes while it is circling another object or barycenter influenced by a central force like gravity.

Other Stuff:

 If you need help remembering this word, think of orbit gum and it's rapper. The orbit gum rapper is wrapped around the gum. When something is orbiting, it is the path it is taking around an object.  

Exsamples:

•  Earth orbits the Sun!
• All planets in a solar system orbit around a star.
• Moons orbit a planet.

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SO WHAT??? SECTION: Why are we studying this term? Why do you need to understand this word to be sucessful in science? How does this term apply to any of our class labs or the real world?

This word or term has alot to do with Earth and our solar system. All planets in a solar system orbit a star. In our case, that's the Sun. A planet's Moons also orbit the planet. Moons orbit planets and planets orbit Stars. In class when we study the palnets, Solar Sytems, and space in genral. Orbiting is almost allways involved.

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 Internet:

"Orbit." Wikipedia. 8 May, 2008. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 9 May 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit>. 

"Reference results for: orbit ." AOL search Referance Center. 2001-07. AOL. 15 May 2008 http://plus.aol.com/aol/reference/orbit/orbit?flv=1&ncid=bSDWgUnvxr0000000295&icid=rbox_ref_center.M.

Culp, Randy. "Space Exploration Badge: How orbits work." Space Exploration. 20 Mar. 2004. 15 May 2008, http://my.execpc.com/~culp/space/space.html .

 Books:

Pasachoff,Jay M., Ph.D. Astronomy; Science Explorer Boston,Massachusetts.Pearson Prentice Hall,2005, Pages 7,16,and 62

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