How does the planets move and rotate around the sun?
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they move around the sun by the gravitational force of sun,and their own centrifugal force,as moon rotates ,or artificial staellites rotate around the earth.also,sun has got such powerful gravity that u cant lift ur foot on sun's surface due to its pull.now the planets also have centrifugfal force which prevents them from rushing into the sun,the closer a planet,the faster it should rotate to balane te gravitational pull of sun and its centrifugal force,dats y mercury rotates with a speed of aroud 29 miles per second.this speed decreases with da increases in distance from da sun.its a perfectly balanced system
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The sun DOES rotate! It also revolves.
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The Earth rotates around the sun tilted at a 34 (is it?) degree angle, and rotates while moving around the sun. Because of the action, it creates different points of direct sunlight (though the equator still has the most direct exposure) and the regions where the sun directs rays to experiences summer, and likewise, the opposite side of the Earth experiences winter. Does this help?
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Each planet is attracted to the Sun by the Sun's gravity.\n\nHowever each planet is traveling at a certain speed tangential to its orbit. \n\nThe sun's gravity curves (pulls in) the trajectory of the planet.\n\nThe faster the planet is moving, the further it can get away from the Sun.\n\nA kind of balance between the speed of the planet and the Sun's gravity at the location of the planet result in the final orbit of the planet.\n\nIf we were to speed up a planet, its orbit would move outwards.\n\nIf we were to slow down a planet, its orbit would move inwards (towards the Sun).\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org
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Stars are burning like our sun. Planets aren't burning like our earth. Planets usually orbit around suns.
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the solar system is a little more complex than that.  everything in the solar system orbits a common center of mass called a barycenter.  the more massive objects are closest to it so the sun is closest.  jupiter is so massive that the solar system's barycenter is outside the solar surface.  the earth is farther away so it essentially orbits around the sun while the sun orbits the barycenter.  the earth and moon orbit their own common center of mass.  this barycenter is within the earth so the moon essentially orbits the earth.  i hope this answers your question.\n\nread these pages:\nhttp://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/barycntr.shtml\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system
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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 sun does not orbit the Earth (LOL).  The reason we have night and day is because it takes the Earth about 24 hours to rotate (spin).  Each time a side is facing the Sun, it is day, and when it is turned away it is in night.
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Consider that the Earth moves around the Sun because of gravity, like a ball on a rope moves around your hand when you swing it.\n\nNow, consider some of the laws of gravity (in english):\nCloser objects = more gravity to eachother\nBIGGER objects = more gravity to them\n\nThe Earth is 1/100000(lots of 0's, maybe more) the size of the Sun, so we really don't affect it much, but it keeps us going around it like nuts! (once a year, right?)\n\nThe Moon, however, is not sooooo different from the size of the Earth (yes it's smaller, but not 1/10000etc(like the Earth vs. Sun thing), AND it's CLOSER to the Earth than the Sun is (WAY CLOSER)!\n\nSo because it's kindda nearer to our size, and it's kindda close, it's got 2 big check-marks for LOTS-O-Gravity!
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The planets were formed by the same cloud of swirling rocks and dust, so when they came together and formed the planets they were all going the same direction. And actually, since the sun was made from the same stuff, it actually rotates in the same direction, though it is hard to tell because there are no surface details to see from earth without assistance to see the movement of the sun. I think astronomers see the rotation of the sun by watching sun spots. \n\nAnd actually they do not all lie in a flat plane. There is actually a small difference between the orbital planes of each of the planets.
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The Sun does indeed rotate. different part of sun rotates at different time. its like jupiter. \nA rigid body such as the Earth will clearly have a single rotation rate. But since the Sun is made of gas, different parts of it rotate at different speeds. Near the Sun's equator, it completes one rotation every 27 Earth days. But near the poles, it's about 31 Earth days. This is called "differential rotation".
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There is a central nucleus, like the sun, with electrons moving in circular orbits around it, like the planets moving around the sun.
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The moon and all planetary bodies, satellites, stars, space debris rotate.\n\nHere are links that may give you more info.\n\nThe first two are about moons, the third one about Saturn's moon Hyperion, which has a scre.w.ed up rotation
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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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There are a number of observations that prove Earth moves around the Sun. Astronomers have found that relatively nearby stars appear to move horizontally back and forth slightly over a year's time. This effect is due to a phenomenon called parallax which in turn results from Earth's movement around the Sun. Also Earth's measured movement through the cosmic microwave background radiation is consistent with our orbit around the Sun.\n\nThis website has a more complete discussion about proofs of Earth's orbit around the Sun --\n\nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=190
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The sun rotates on its own axis that what causes the gavational pull to keep the planets moving around it.
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Gravity keeps the celestial bodies from crashing into each other, along with their velocities, vectors and other planetary orbital forces.  A simple explanation is that the sun is a moving target, travelling around the Milky Way Galaxy.  The gravity pulls the earth into the sun, but the earth 'misses' the sun so to speak.  The result is an elliptical orbit.  The velocity of the earth is not great enough to escape the sun's gravity.