which 2 planets have overlapping orbitals?
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Neptune and Pluto, however Pluto is no longer a planet.
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You are confusing the terms here.\n\nOnly planets outside the orbit of the Earth (superior) are ever at opposition.  Opposition is when the Sun, Earth and that planet line up in that order*.  Therefore, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune can all be at opposition.  Inferior planets though that orbit inside the Earth's orbit, (namely Venus and Mercury) can never be at opposition because their orbits will never take them past the Earth so that the Earth will be between them and the sun.\n\nInferior planets can, however be at conjunction.  This is when either the planet, sun and Earth line up in that order or the sun, the planet and the Earth line up in that order*.\n\nOpposition is an alright time to view a planet because it is fully illuminated.  If a light source is behind you and you look at something you see it is totally illuminated (assuming it's far enough away for your shadow to not interfere).  The conjunction that Mercury and Venus expirience is a very bad time to view the planets because either they are infront of the sun from our point of view and so we can't make the planet out in the blinding light, or it is behind the sun from our point of view anyway*.
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The Earth and Mars do not orbit the sun in perfect circles, they are ellipses.\nSo sometimes the Earth is closer to the sun than other times, and sometimes Mars is closer to the sun than other times.\nSo if the Earth is farther from the sun than normal at the same time Mars is closest to the sun, and this happens when both planets are on the same side of the sun, then we are closer to Mars than any other time and therefore we can see it better.
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This is actually a difficult question to answer because the planets are moving in their orbits all the time, and so the distance from each planet to Earth is constantly changing. When both planets are on the same side of the Sun, and form a line with the Sun, then they are closest to each other. When two planets are on opposite sides of the Sun, and form a line with the Sun, then they are farthest away. For example, the planet Venus is about 42 million kilometers (26 million miles) from Earth at its closest point and about 258 million kilometers (160 million miles) away at its most distant point. \n\nUsually when people ask this question, what they mean is "What is the distance between the orbit of Earth and the orbit of each planet?" or "What is the closest that each planet comes to Earth?" (These are essentially the same question, right, because the planets can't get any closer than their orbital spacing allows.) You can compute this in a rough way by assuming that the orbits are circular, and looking at the planet-to-Sun distance for each planet. Since the distances are so large, we usually express them in Astronomical Units (AU). (An AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun, about 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles). The list below shows the distance of each planet from the Sun in AU. \n\nPlanet Distance from Sun in AU \nMercury 0.39 \nVenus 0.72 \nEarth 1.0 \nMars 1.5 \nJupiter 5.2 \nSaturn 9.5 \nUranus 19.2 \nNeptune 30.1 \nPluto 39.5 \n\nTo find the distance between the orbits of two planets in AU, subtract the two planet-Sun distances. For example, Earth orbits at 1 AU from the Sun and Venus orbits at 0.72 AU from the Sun. The difference between these two distances is 1 - 0.72 = 0.28 AU. To get the number in kilometers, multiply by the conversion above: 0.28 x 150 = 42 million kilometers. \n\nThe numbers above are generally what's used in introductory astronomy classes.
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Larger planet has a stronger gravitational pull than a smaller planet.
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I could think of only two things that may (or may not) be that for which you are searching.\n\nThe first is simply a solar system mobile.  A simple string and crossbar mobile that children can put together.  Unfortunately a slight breeze could have them all going retrograde at once! Moons of the various planets are not generally included and the orbits are not elliptical.\n\nThe second is:\n"An orrery is a mechanical device that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the solar system in heliocentric model. They are typically driven by a large clockwork mechanism with a globe representing the Sun at the center, and with a planet at the end of each of the arms." *\n\nI watched a program on Leonardo DaVinci and a section of this program had this tucked in the 3rd hour.  Coming back to find your question was interesting to say the least.   I hope this is what you need.
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Any orbital other than the 1s  orbital is excited if populated.  2s, 2p, 3s,3p, 3d....
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Not precisely, but that gives a very good first approximation. The planets generally orbit the Sun in the plane of the Solar equator, which is what you would expect. There are variations, most notably that of Neptune, (and until it was demoted to "dwarf planet", Pluto.\n\nThe plane of the Solar equator is inclined to the plane of the Earth's equator by approx. 7 degrees, and this means that the sun, and all the planets, follow this path, which is called the "ecliptic".It gets that name because the apparent path of the moon crosses the ecliptic at two points, called nodes, and it is when the moon and sun are both at or very near one of these nodes in their apparent motion that an eclipse, either solar or lunar, occurs.
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The arrangements in our solar system is(from the Sun):Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto.\nNote:Pluto's orbit isn't similar to ours.\nThe solar system also includes an infinite number of stars, whom biggest is the Sun. There are plenty of Black Holes in the solar system. The gravity pull of the Black Holes are so strong, they can suck in nearby stars.\nThere are also plenty of stars bursting. We call the explosions Supernovas. After the Supernova, the star becomes a White Dwarf. There are also plenty of comets around. Among them, Halley's Comet is one example, passing over earth in 76 years at a time. Its orbit is 18 degrees to the ecliptic.\nHope this is useful and answers ur question!:)
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Actually, I believe there are only two.  Venus and Uranus.  However I don't know about our Kuiper belt cousins, so perhaps the answer is in one of them.  Venus has a three degree roatation, and Uranus an eighty-two degree rotation.
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I'm sure there's a large chance element in it, but one idea for the pretty clearcut difference between the inner "terrestrial" planets and the rest is explained at the following link:\nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=246
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Uranus obeys the Titius-Bode rule, it is Neptune which doesn't.\n\nNo hard explanation, only an analogy: in quantum mechanics, the outer orbits of electrons may approach a continuum, as they do in metal bonds. With the increasing distances in the logarithmic Titius-Bode sequence, probably the quadratic distance influence of gravity allow intermediary orbits.
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our neighbor in other planets
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Earth, Uranus, and Neptune are all blue-green in some way or another. The 2 closest planets to earth are Venus and Mars.
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Although all planets' orbits are elliptical, Venus's orbit is the closest to circular, with an eccentricity of less than 1%.\n\nalso...\n\nOrbital characteristics (Epoch J2000) \nSemi-major axis 108,208,926 km\n0.723 331 99 AU \nOrbital circumference 0.680 Tm\n4.545 AU \nEccentricity 0.006 773 23 \nPerihelion 107,476,002 km\n0.718 432 70 AU \nAphelion 108,941,849 km\n0.728 231 28 AU \nOrbital period 224.700 69 d\n(0.615 197 0 a) \nSynodic period 583.92 d \nAvg. orbital speed 35.020 km/s \nMax. orbital speed 35.259 km/s \nMin. orbital speed 34.784 km/s \nInclination 3.394 71°\n(3.86° to Sun's equator) \nLongitude of the\nascending node 76.680 69° \nArgument of the\nperihelion 54.852 29° \nNumber of satellites 0
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i suppose a planet.cause it is denser then asteroids
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The inner planets are the 4 planets who's orbits are closest to the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars).  The asteroid belt (and millions and millions of miles) seperates the inner planets from the outer planets.\n\nCompared to the distances in between the outer planets, the inner planets might as well be right next to eachother, the distances really start getting big in the outer solar system.