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What is the term used if the all planets form a straight line?
Its called the catastrophic alignment or planetary alignment
Do line segments have to be straight?
Yes. If it is not straight, then it is not a line.
All the planets in line with each other?
No. Almost never happens. Depends on how well aligned you mean, occasionally all the planets will be within 45° (as seen from the Sun) or within a cone that has the vertex at the Sun and has an opening of 30°, this happens every decade or so. All the planets can never align less than 2° because the deviation from the ecliptic for some of the planets is greater than this.
Are line segments only straight or can they be curved?
If it is not straight, then it is not a line.
How do you explain straight line graphs?
it just a straight line
Why don't planets travel in straight line?
Inertia is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line. They "want" to go in a straight line, so to speak. However that is changed when a force acts on them. In the case of planets, that force is the gravitational force between the planet and the Sun.So that's why planets orbit the Sun instead of traveling in a straight line.
What is sysergy?
Straight line through 3 planets such as Sun, Earth and Moon
What happens if the suns gravity ceases?
It wouldn't, but if it were to suddenly cease, the planets would carry on through space at the same speed, but in a straight line away from the sun instead of on a elliptical path.
Who was the scientist who explained the force that keeps the planets from going in a straight line out into space?
Newton
What outside force prevents the planets from moving in a straight line into space?
The force of gravity.
When did the planets last align?
They never did. In all the solar systems history, all 8 planets never alighned in a straight line
What planet does not travel in a straight line but in a curved line?
Kepler's Law: "The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one of the foci."
Newton's 1st law of motion states that a moving object will go in a straight line unless an outside force changes this motion What outside force prevents the planets from moving in a straight line in?
It's not that there is some force keeping the planets from falling into the sun; the sun's gravity prevents the planets from travelling in a straight line out of the solar system. If you throw a ball in a straight line then it keeps going, but if you throw a ball on a rope tied to a pole then the rope pulls the ball toward the pole and keeps the ball moving in a circle.
What descriptions characterizes the Newtonian understanding of the mechanics of the solar system?
The natural motion of the planets is motion in a straight line. They are prevented from straight line motion by the gravitational force of the Sun.
Where did the sun moves?
The sun moves in straight line and the planets move around it in spiral way
What is the term used if the all planets form a straight line?
Its called the catastrophic alignment or planetary alignment
If the force of gravity suddenly stopped acting on the planets they would do what?
Gravity is what keeps the planets going in their orbits. If gravity just stopped, then the planets would go flying in a straight line tangent to their orbit.
