The document discusses planets and orbits. It lists the order of planets from the sun as Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, the Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Planets orbit the sun due to gravity, which weakens with increased distance from the sun. Orbits have an elliptical shape defined by terms like foci and axes. Eccentricity describes how circular or elongated an ellipse is, ranging from 0 for a circle to 1 for a straight line. The document provides an example of calculating eccentricity using the distance between foci and length of the major axis.