The planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. One orbit of the Earth takes one year. Meanwhile, our entire solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Our sun and solar system move at about 800 thousand kilometers an hour â thatâs about 500 thousand miles an hour â in this huge orbit.
Several pieces of amber. noun. The definition of amber is a fossil resin that is yellow, orange, red, or brown in hue, or refers to a specific color that is considered to look like this resin. An example of amber is the material in which a moth was preserved in the movie Jurassic Park.
amber (countable and uncountable, plural ambers) ( 1 obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. [14th-18th c.] 1526, The Grete Herball: Ambre is hote and drye [â¦] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale. 2  A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery.