Does the earth rotate around the sun?
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Earth ROTATES about itself.\nIt REVOLVES around the sun.\nThere is a difference betwen earth's ROTATION and \nREVOLUTION.\n\nROTATION takes 24 hours.\nREVOLUTION takes 365.255 days\n\nPeople say, 'the sun is up or the sun rises'.  This is conventional.  You can't expect people to speak technically and scientifically.  A scientist won't speak like that.\n\nthe sun is fixed in its position and it rotates about itself.  only the earth and other planets are rotating about themselves and revolve around the sun.  Sun is the centre of gravity for them.  If they don't ROTATE around themself, they will be attracted by the sun and they will become the food for the sun's fire.  They ROTATE only to counter-attact that gravitational force by the sun.\n\n\nExamples for u:\n\nROTATION:  Imagine a top, it rotates around itself\nREVOLUTION:Consider a circular circuit in a motor car race.\n\nEarth does these two things.
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it seems to rise in the east and set in the west, but it is really the rotation of the earth, so the sun isnt really rising or setting at all
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The Earth rotates (spins around).  Sometimes a side is facing the Sun and is in daytime.  Sometimes it is not and is in nighttime.
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Earth revolves around the sun because the giant nebula out of which the solar system formed was spinning and the angular momentum is conserved, and earth spins because of the initial config. Why it revolves in an ellipse, see this\nexplanation at http://www.mathsnet.net/cabri/feynman.html
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Earth's orbiting around the sun & Earth's 23.5 degree tilt of axis.\n\nOn earth's orbit around the sun, there are 4 points of position that we refer to as either equinoxes(2) or solstices(2).\n\nTo begin with, a solstice is the time when on Earth the sun is either at it's lowest (winter) or highest (summer) point in the sky. An equinox is when all places on the planet experiences equal amounts of light & darkness.\n\nFor the Northern Hemisphere:\n\nWhen the Northern axis is tilted toward the sun we are experiencing the summer solstice. On that day we have the greatest amount of sunlight.\n\nNext stop is the Autumnal equinox. About 1/4 of the way in our orbit around the sun, the Earth's axis is neither pointed toward or away from the sun. All places on earth experience the same amount of daylight/night hours.\n\nAgain, 1/2 the way in it's orbit, the Earth's northern axis is tilted away from the sun so that we get the least amount of daylight hours on this particular day.\n\nAs we move on still, 3/4 of the way around the sun, we experience another equinox. This is the Vernal or Spring equinox. Again, the northern axis is neither pointed toward or away from the sun. Equal daylight/night hours occur.\n\nAs for the Southern Hemisphere: they have the opposite seasons for the very same reasons as above. It is really cool that while we are celebrating Christmas during the winter monthes that the Southern Hemisphere's Dec. 25 is during the SUMMER!\n\nDebunking some common myths (pet peeves of mine):\n\n**Myth 1**The seasons are NOT caused by the distance of Earth from the Sun. In all actuality, the earth is closest in it's orbit to the sun during the winter monthes.\n\n**Myth 2**The earth's axis DOES NOT turn as it goes around the sun! The earth turns on it's axis & the earth revolves around the sun. This combination causes us to be tilted toward or away from the sun!\n\n**Myth 3**An egg will NOT stand on end during an equinox! All eggs have differences in their surfaces which may allow any to be stood on end if you tried it long enough!
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Depends on your point of view. If you're hovering above the North pole, the earth rotates counter-clockwise. If you're hovering above the South pole, it rotates clockwise.
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If you mean revolutions or rotations around its axis as defined by the frame of reference provided by the Sun, it's about 365 and 1/4 per solar year.
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The Earth rotates counter-clockwise when viewed from above the North Pole. \n\nThe rotation causes a centrifugal force, which causes the bulge of the equator, and a coriolis force, which is important in determining the flow of jet streams in the atmosphere and currents in the ocean.
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Yes the sun moves but let me explain:\n\nThe sun rotates just like earth does only at different speeds. Without going into tedious explanation this is what ultimately causes sun spots and solar flares.\n\nThe Sun also has a slight wobble to it. It doesn't really orbit but due to the gravitational pull of the planets on the sun the sun has a VERY small wobble. Basically in physics you have to add the collective mass of the sun and the planets when calculating the exact center mass of the solar system. When you do this the exact center does not fall at the exact center of the sun; it's slightly off.\n\ngo to this websites to see it in a diagram:\n\nhttp://tycho.bgsu.edu/~laird/cp_images/wobble.html
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It doesnt have years or days like we do.  For us a day is one rotation of the earth buit the sun doesnt spin.  For us a year is one revolution around the sun, but the sun cant revolve around itself
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yes it goes around the sun.\n\nBut the sun orbit in the universe means that we orbit alot more suns although it would take billions billion years to do so.
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All the planetary objects in the solar system revolves round the Sun. Then how can the earth be the centre. The center of the Solar system must be at the Sun. The Sun is relatively stationary in the solar system.
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hey buddy! hello.\nwe all know that the earth rotates around the sun and also on its own axis. we also know that an imaginary line divides the earth into 2 equal halves. this line is the equator. the upper part is the north side and the lower is the south side. the axis of the earth does not run perpendicularly, but is tilted at an angle of about 16 degrees (if i remember it correctly)\n\nnow, as the earth rotates simultaneously on its axis and around the sun, it so happens that sun rays fall on one side that is either on north or on south side for continuous 6 months. this means that there is day for continuous 6 onths on one side and night on the other. so, it totaly depends that at what time of a year you r comparing both the poles temperature. if you compare the temperature of the 2 sides in the month of june, north pole will be hotter and south pole will be cooler. opposite happens during december and january. \nat a certain time it may also happen that temperatures of both the poles are same! this may happen at the time of transit. that is when sunshine is equal to both the poles!\n\nhope i have answered u.\n\ngood luck.
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The Earth is rotating around an axis (called its rotational axis). Some objects rotate about a horizontal axis, like a rolling log. Some objects, such as a skater, rotate about a vertical axis. The Earth's axis is tipped over about 23.5° from vertical.\n\nHow do we define up and down in space? What would "vertical" mean? For the Earth, we can think of vertical as straight up and down with respect to the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun (called the ecliptic).\n\nEarth's rotational axis points in the same direction relative to the stars, so that the North Pole points towards the star Polaris. Think of the Earth as a spinning top, tipped over to one side. Over very long time periods (thousands of years) the direction of Earth's axis slowly changes due to precession.\n\nThe Earth rotates around once in 24 hours - that's a rate of 1000 miles per hour!. The time it takes for the Earth to rotate completely around once is what we call a day. It's Earth's rotation that gives us night and day.\n\nThe combined effect of the Earth's tilt and its orbital motion result in the seasons
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The sun rotates on its axis about once every 27 days.\n\n"enables" is not quite the work I would use to describe it, but the sun rotates due to the law of conservation of angular momentum.\n\nWhen the sun way forming out of a giant cloud of dust millions of years ago, that dust was very slowly moving.  When the dust started to condense, the roation sped up.  The more it condenses, the faster it rotations due to the law of conservation of [angular] momentum.
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The Earth moves at an average speed of 107,218 kilometers/hour (66,625.2652 miles/hour) around the sun.  Additionally the Earth spins on its axis at about 165 mph.
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Earth was born in orbit around the sun.  \n\nIt is somewhat of a homebody.  Although it gets around a lot, it never leaves the immediate neighborhood.