Question

Another word for the earth's orbit around the sun is its

Answer 1

Forgive me, but in what context are you asking? I know of no other name for earth's orbit.

Its orbit follows an elliptical path, and lies on the ecliptic plane, but beyond that I'm afraid I've pretty much run out of ways to talk about earth's orbit.

Answer 2

Addendum, of sorts: I'm wondering if your "around the sun" may have more significance than appears at first glance. Anything that orbits our sun has what's called a "heliocentric orbit".

Our moon's orbit, by contrast, has a "geocentric orbit".

I hope I'm getting closer to whatever it is you want to know... :-)

Answer 3

years