What evidence shows that the earth's axis is tilted relative to its yearly orbit around the sun?

Answer 1

The length of time required for a complete circle to form along a given star trail is the length of the earth's period or rotation. Additionally, the place in the sky that is the apparent center of all the star trail circles is the place where the earth's axis of rotation is pointing (either north or south).

Answer 2

The earth is tilted about 23 degrees 26 minutes. Or, 23 1/2 degrees on its axis.

The earth rotates west to east, and if you look down at the earth from the North pole, it will be rotating counter clockwise. if you look up at the earth from the south pole, then the earth will be rotating clockwise.

Answer 3

Weird question. We don't revolve around the earth. We revolve WITH the earth. We are pressed on the earth due to gravity and we will rotate and orbit with the earth forever... well until the earth is gone or we are gone.

Answer 4

it moves so it cuses day and night. if it were not moving the temperature would fairly be the same throughout the year.

The plane of the foucault pendulum appears to shift its' orientation. I had this question on a test and this was the correct answer.

Answer 5

All the stars seem to move around the Earth. This is a reflection of Earth's rotation. The only alternative explanation is that galaxies that are millions of light-years away move, at a tremendous speed, around the Earth once every 23h56m. This doesn't quite fit in current scientific theories. How could they move faster than light? Why would this movement be synchronized?

All the stars seem to move around the Earth. This is a reflection of Earth's rotation. The only alternative explanation is that galaxies that are millions of light-years away move, at a tremendous speed, around the Earth once every 23h56m. This doesn't quite fit in current scientific theories. How could they move faster than light? Why would this movement be synchronized?

All the stars seem to move around the Earth. This is a reflection of Earth's rotation. The only alternative explanation is that galaxies that are millions of light-years away move, at a tremendous speed, around the Earth once every 23h56m. This doesn't quite fit in current scientific theories. How could they move faster than light? Why would this movement be synchronized?

All the stars seem to move around the Earth. This is a reflection of Earth's rotation. The only alternative explanation is that galaxies that are millions of light-years away move, at a tremendous speed, around the Earth once every 23h56m. This doesn't quite fit in current scientific theories. How could they move faster than light? Why would this movement be synchronized?

Answer 6

Because we sleep at night and wake at day (most of us, anyways). If earth wasn't rotating, then one side of earth would always be night, and one side would always be day. Consequently, the night side would be perpetually freezing, and the day side would be blisteringly hot.

The popular examples include: day and night, seasons (which is a result of the tilt of the axis), how we see the moon (in phases), how we see the sun (slightly different shape), etc.

Answer 7

The assumption of rotation of the earth results in the simplest explanation

for each of the following:

-- Coriolis effect (rotation of high- and low-pressure weather systems)

-- apparent east-to-west motion of every astronomical object; sun, moon, planets, stars, etc.

-- rotation of the Foucault pendulum

-- intensity of meteor showers after local midnight vs. before local midnight

Answer 8

The first person who had experimental evidence for this was the astronomer F.W. Bessel who in 1838 was able to measure the parallax of a nearby star. This showed that the earth was at a different place, relative to the star, in June than it was in January. And geometry showed that the two places were on opposite sides of the sun. More parallax measurements since his time have confirmed that the earth follows a closed path around the sun.

Answer 9

Our movement in refernce to that of the sky's. Example would be time lapse photogarphy of the sky.

If you connected the dots/stars in that area of the sky after a period of day you would see arc's and lines thus proving two thing's. full ciricles are only possible if you look at one of the poles and see the stars closest to it appear not to move. it helps to live above either of the tropics on either heimisphere.

A: the earth is round.

B: the earth is spining. (if someone says that we are the center of the univ. and everything moves around us. explain the same concept above but over a year to find out we move around the sun. and then over a few decades to find we move with our arm of the milkyway.)

the Best place to observe the earth rotating in the northern heim. is to note the movement of the big dipper to the north star. Draw it over a nite, every hour on the hour. The longer your night/dark time the better the results.

Answer 10

There is none. Tycho Brahe was right, the other eight planets orbit the sun but the sun and moon orbit the earth, once a day. The earth is fixed and stationary. If it spun at 1000 mph at the equator; we would all be thrown off it. There have been many experiments carried out to try and prove the rotation of the earth, most notably the Michelson - Morley series, and they have all failed to prove such. Also, if the earth orbited the sun then there would be a transit of Venus every 19 months.