Is it possible that an earth-like planet is orbiting on the other side of the sun?
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No, as satellites and probes have been sent around the solar system, even behind the sun. There is no evidence of another planet on the other side of the sun. \n\nIn a hypothetical world where there is a planet on the other side of the sun, the gravity pull from the planet will distort the orbits of the closer planets i.e Mars and Venus. This distortion can be extrapolated by astronomists to determine the size and speed of the planet. However the existing 9 planets have all orbits accounted for.
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Have you ever noticed that the sun appears to come up on one side of the horizon, and then several hours later it seems to sink down on the other side of the horizon?\n\nIf you ever noticed this phenomenon, you were aware of the Earth spinning.
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Sort of!  As the sun slowly runs out of (mostly hydrogen) fuel, it will expand into a red giant and it's radius will be greater than the current position of the Earth.  However, the Earth's orbit is currently projected to move farther out while this happens so our planet will not actually be engulfed by the sun.  It will, however, experience a very large temperature increase.
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Curious is correct. It is tidal lock, not coincidence, that causes the phenomenon you ask about. Eventually, the earth would get into tidal lock also, and always show the same face to the moon, but before that happens the sun will expand in its death throes and engulf the planetary orbits out beyond Mars.
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It is indeed possible...I'm just not sure on what planet.
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There could be another planet ... but it will be so far away from the Sun that it may be even more difficult to find than Xena (the 10th planet).\n\nAs to the solar system existing in another planet?  Hmmm .... seriously mate ... no.  Not a chance.
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Night and day occur at the same time on opposite sides of a planet.
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Yes. If you are watching earth and moon from a distant place far far away in space, it would look like that. There is another thing- Moon and earth have a irregular movement due to each others gravity. They kind of wobble a tiny bit. The earth is moving, and the moon is revolving around the earth and following the earth.
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no the fourth planet from the sun.put me on best answer please!\n\nHappy Trails ♥!
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No, the Earth moves around the sun at a rate of once per year.\n\nReligion cannot beat fact.
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2003UB313. Although its still not officially a "planet". Neither is Pluto for that matter. From what I know UB313 is an educated assumption made because of a variance in  Pluto's orbit. In other words something is causing Pluto to "move" a certain way along its orbit. It would definately take  a large celestial object to cause this to happen but Im not sure if it has definately been determined that its a planet
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The planet's rotation would have to reverse for this to occur. So, no.
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Yes,it exerts gravitational pull and it is due to this gravitational pull all the planets are revolving around the sun in fixed orbits.
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Nah, probably not like this. Very probable that there's a planet with intelligent life though.
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yes we can, and actually astronomers have been working on it for the last 15 years or so, the problem is that there is no telescope currently powerful enough to directly see any planets orbiting other stars, the most common problem is that what little light is reflected by the planet gets easily lost in the glare of the stares light, so the only way that we can find out weather or not a star has planets orbiting around it, is by looking at the influence the planet has on the star, like causing it to wobble, this is because as a planet orbits around a star, it causes the star to slightly wobble with the orbit of the planet, and it is that slight wobble by which astronomers can estimate the mass and speed of rotation and many other details about the planet.\n\nnow if you are asking this to find out if there's any life out there, i would suggest reading this book called "Faint Echoes, Distant Stars" it will open up a whole new world of possibilities to you, here is a link to it\nhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0060750995&itm=4
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No.  The sun is one of the stars. The earth and the other planets move around the star we call our sun.
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no, but the sun is getting bigger and it is predicted that it will absord mercury and venus on its way to us, but it may or may not consume us.  This will only occur in the next 5 billion or so years.  But you can look at this question two ways, yes it is getting closer because it is expanding, or you could say no because it is not physically moving toward us even though we are going in an eliptical orbit (oval for you simpletons)\n\nConsidering also that we are significantly smaller than the sun, and the laws of physics state that (in simple terms) the larger the object is = stronger the force of gravity.  Thus meaning that the sun cannot actually get closer to us, but we could if we did not maintain the correct amount of centripetal force that allows us to rotate in an eliptical orbit so that we do not fall into the sun.  \n\nPS i am in 10th grade