Earth has gravity and tends to pull the moon. Moon in its trun has its own gravity and tends to pull the Earth. Due to pulling by both Earth & Moon, the present status quo (distance) is maintained. Like all planets in the Solar System, Earth rotates on its Axis. Due to rotation, the lines of attraction between Earth & Moon is broken and this makes the Moon move around the Earth (we can imagine earth & moon as very large magnets and we all know that we can move 1 magnet with the help of another without physical contact through the use of magentic force). As the gravitational force is always constant, the Moon is always held in place in a circular orbit and the same face of the moon is towards the earth. The present position of moon makes it possible to revolve around the earth once in about 29 days. If it were to be farther away, the time for 1 revolution would have been more than 29 days and vice versa. Now let us imagine a mother sitting on the ground and her small child going around her always holding her for support. The face of the child is always towards the Mother and the back of the child can never be seen. I feel this is what is happening in case of earth and moon. 1 face of the moon is always towards the earth and we can say that moon only revolves around the earth. As is generally believed, if moon had taken 29 days for 1 rotation, that we should have seen the other face of the moon after 14.5 days. Thus it can be inferred that moon only revolves around the Earth and the driving force is the action of earth's rotation on its axis. K.Vishwanath, Bangalore India
yes, the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
No it takes one full year for the Earth to revolve around the sun.
The earth and the other planets as well as asteroids all revolve around the sun like the moon and artificial satellites revolve around the earth.
The sun is standing still, it is the earth that rotates round the sun.
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yes, the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
No, the earth revolves around the sun. it takes 365 days to completely revolve around it.
No it takes one full year for the Earth to revolve around the sun.
It will take the moon 27.32 days to revolve around the earth.
The Earth does not revolve around Venus. Both the Earth and Venus revolve around the Sun. The Earth takes about 365.25 days to do so, and Venus takes about 224.7 days to do so.
No all planets revolve around the nearest star. In our case, the sun.
It takes 365 1/4 days to revolve around earth.
No, the moon does not revolve around the sun. The Earth does though. You might be getting confused because the moon revolves around the Earth.
It take 27.32 days for the moon to revolve around the earth. At the same time, the Earth and moon revolve as a bound pair around the sun every 365.25 days.
If the earth did not revolve around the sun, there would not be any seasons. The problem is that if the earth did not revolve around the sun, that is, if it came to a stop in its orbit, the sun's gravity (with just the tiniest help from the earth's) would pull the earth into the sun.
The gravitational attraction of the sun causes the earth to revolve around the sun once a year.
It takes the Moon about 27 1/2 days to revolve once around Earth.