| Abstract from DBPedia | A heliocentric orbit (also called circumsolar orbit) is an orbit around the barycenter of the Solar System, which is usually located within or very near the surface of the Sun. All planets, comets, and asteroids in the Solar System, and the Sun itself are in such orbits, as are many artificial probes and pieces of debris. The moons of planets in the Solar System, by contrast, are not in heliocentric orbits, as they orbit their respective planet (although the Moon has a convex orbit around the Sun). The barycenter of the Solar System, while always very near the Sun, moves through space as time passes, depending on where other large bodies in the Solar System, such as Jupiter and other large gas planets, are located at that time. A similar phenomenon allows the detection of exoplanets by way of the radial-velocity method. The helio- prefix is derived from the Greek word "ἥλιος", meaning "Sun", and also Helios, the personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. The first spacecraft to be put in a heliocentric orbit was Luna 1 in 1959. An incorrectly timed upper-stage burn caused it to miss its planned impact on the Moon.太陽周回軌道（たいようしゅうかいきどう、英語: heliocentric orbit）とは太陽を中心として周回する軌道（公転軌道）である。太陽系のすべての惑星、彗星、小惑星や多くの宇宙探査機や多くの人工的なスペースデブリが該当する。月の公転軌道は太陽周回軌道ではなく地球周回軌道であるが、地球の公転速度も含めて考えると太陽の影響の方が強い。 接頭語であるヘリオ（helio）とは古代ギリシャの太陽を表すヘリオに由来し、同時にギリシャ神話における太陽を擬人化したヘーリオスをも意味する。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Heliocentric_orbit) |
