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Is the sun directly in the center of Earth as Earth revolves around it?
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The Earth's orbital path around the Sun isn't a circle; it is an ellipse, a sort of oval shape. Some orbits are ALMOST circular, like the Earth's; some are more oval, like Pluto's. A comet has an elliptical orbit which is VERY stretched out.
An ellipse doesn't have a center, exactly; it has a "focus". Actually, it has TWO "foci", which define the ovalness of the ellipse. The Sun is at one focus of the Earth's elliptical orbit. (There is no physical object at the other focus of the ellipse.)
The Moon's orbit is elliptical, too, with the Earth at one focus of the ellipse.
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The earth revolves around the sunsaid the teacher?
Teachers are sometimes correct, as in this case. The Sun is in the center of the solar system, while the Earth revolves around the Sun.
What is the name of the imaganery throughth center of the earth that it revolves around?
Axis
Which one is stationary moon or earth?
neither the moon revolves around the earth but the earth revolves around the sun and the sun revolves around the center of our galaxy. nothing has ever been stationary since even before the big bang.
The moon revolves around?
The Earth. Actually, technically, the Moon and Earth revolve around a common center of gravity, but that center of gravity falls within the earth itself.
Why the moon revolves around the earth not the other way around?
The moon and the earth both revolve around their common center of mass.
How was the telescope a contribution to society?
it led to the discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, not that the earth is the center of the universe
What do you think revolves the earth around the sun or the sun around the earth?
I think they both revolve around their common center of mass. Of course, since the sun's mass is so much greater than the Earth's their common center of mass is inside the sun, and it appears almost as if the Earth revolves around a stationary sun.
How did the heliocentric theory differ from the geocentric theory?
The geocentric theory says the Earth is the center of the universe, everything revolves around it. The heliocentric theory says the Earth revolves around the Sun, the Sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Milky Way is floating away from the sight of the Big Bang.
When the moon rotates and revolves around the earth what is the cause for the earth?
All of the revolving is directly related to gravitational pull.
Why does the Earth revolve around us?
It doesn't. When something moves around something else, we talk about "revolution" (verb: revolves); the Earth revolves around the Sun. When something moves around its own center, we talk about "rotation" - in this case, the Earth rotates around its axis. It neither revolves nor rotates around us.
What did ptolemy say about the sun and earth and the other planets?
he said the earth was the center of the universe and everything revolves around it
Does the earth orbit around the sun and moon?
No. The moon revolves around Earth, and Earth revolves around the sun.
