How many years does it take the to orbit the sun?

Answer 1

It takes 1 year, because that is the term that defines an orbit around the Sun.

It takes one year or about 365.25 days to go once around the Sun. Our calendar is not exact, but pretty close. Every four years is usually a leap year when those extra 1/4 days are used as February 29.

Answer 2

It takes Earth one year - 365 days. That's what a year is.

Well, in all technicality, it takes about 365 and a quarter days. The extra quarters add up to be an extra day every four years - February 29, a leap year.

Answer 3

It takes the Earth 365.25 days to orbit the Sun once.

(Technically, this is the "sidereal year" which is the proper way to define a year as the time it takes the Earth to travel around the Sun as measured relative to the fixed distance stars. One can make other definitions, such as the time between the annual equinoxes but the wobble of the Earth's axis creates a tiny misleading effect that makes such other definitions of a year change a bit.)

The extra .25 days is why we have an extra day every four years, on February 29th.

(Leap Year)

If one wants to measure the year even more precisely, one gets a value of 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes and 9.76 seconds. The extra minutes and seconds add up over time and so once in a great while adjustments are made, but that gets to be a more complicated explanation and so it would be a different question.

Answer 4

One. The definition of "year" is the length of time it takes for the earth to orbit the sun.

Answer 5

It does that constantly, and has been doing it for billions of years.

These days, the Earth completes a full trip around the sun every 365.25 days.

Answer 6

It takes about 365.25 days for the Earth to orbit once around the Sun.

Answer 7

That's the period of time we call a "year".

It's 365.24 days. (rounded)

Answer 8

365.25 days. the additional .25 is why every 4 years we add a full 24 hours

Answer 9

ummm, the earth orbits the sun once every 365 years (1 year).

Answer 10

Roughly 365.23 days. It's the period of time we call a "year".