What is an orbital period?
An orbital period is basically the amount of time it takes an object to make a complete revolutuion along its orbit, for example, Earths orbital period is appx. 365 days. or, as Wikipedia states… The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object. When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars. There are several kinds of orbital periods for objects around the Sun: * The sidereal period is the time that it takes the object to make one full orbit around the Sun, relative to the stars. This is considered to be an object’s true orbital period. * The synodic period is the time that it takes for the object to reappear at the same point in the sky, relative to the Sun, as observed from Earth; i.e. returns to the same elongation (and planetary phase). This is the time that elapses between two successive conjunctions with t
