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Yes, the atoms in the body rotate at the same rate on the same axis that the Earth rotates, giving us a direct connection with the place we call Earth..
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What planet does it take 88 days in earth days to rotate around the planet?
The question is inconsistent. Rotation is the period a planet or moon rotates about its own axis. Revolution is the period a planet or moon revolves about its parent planet or sun. Mercury takes 88 Earth days to revolve about the Sun. It takes 59 Earth days to rotate about its own axis.
Are there any planets that do not spin?
Yes. The moon rotates in relation to the stars, so it has an axis of rotation.
What is the difference between orbiting and rotation?
To orbit is to revolve or go around something else. Satellites, the space shuttle, space stations, and the Moon all orbit (go around) the Earth. Astronomically, this is the motion caused by the gravitational pull of another object. Earth orbits our yellow-dwarf G-2 sun, and the Sun (and its solar system) orbits within the Milky Way galaxy. Here's a more simple example: a person can orbit another person by simply running around them in a circle.To rotate is to spin around. Earth rotates on its axis at about 1037 miles per hour. A person can rotate by standing in one place and turning around and around.Earth actually orbits and rotates at the same time : it spins while it moves in a circle around the Sun. A person can spin continuously while moving in a circle, but it would make them dizzy!A. ORBIT: one body in space keeps moving in a large 'almost-circle' around another. Example, the Moon orbits the Earth while the Earth (and Moon) orbit the Sun.B. ROTATION: one body in space spins like a top around its own axis. Example, the Moon rotates, the Earth rotates, the Sun rotates.
Does the sun revolve on its own axis?
The sun certainly does rotate - it has a rotational period of about 25 days. This is apparent if you have ever used a telescope to project images of the sun onto a piece of white card so that you can see the sunspots. If you do this over several days, the sunspots appear to move across the face of the sun. Not only does the sun rotate, but it also orbits the centre of our galaxy, completing one orbit every 226 million years or so. Paul Dodd, Docklands, Victoria (I had the same question and found this answer among many others like it on the web...thans, Paul!)
What are the earth phases from the moon?
Yes you would. Interestingly, the Earth would never rise or set - it would remain a prominent feature in the sky. Daylight on the Moon itself lasts roughly 2 weeks because of the rotational and orbital times of the Moon (both approximately 27.3 Earth days) and the Moon's orbital motion around the Sun.
What is the central axis of the body?
the axis through which a body rotate it is prependicular to plane of body
How long does it take to make the sun rotate around earth?
The Sun does not rotate around the Earth, nor does the Earth rotate around the Sun. The Earth revolves around the Sun each year, and each body rotates about its own axis: once a day for the Earth, once in about 25 days for the Sun.
What is the difference between the terms orbit and rotate?
Rotate means that something turns around its own axis (the axis being inside the body), as when a ball is spinning.Orbit means that something moves around something else, as when Earth moves around the Sun.
How long does it take the sun to make a rotation around earth?
The Sun does not rotate around the Earth, nor does the Earth rotate around the Sun. The Earth revolves around the Sun each year, and each body rotates about its own axis: once a day for the Earth, once in about 25 days for the Sun.
What is known as rotation?
Any rigid body can rotate if it moves repeatedly about a fixed axis. If the axis is inside the body that is also called revolving.
A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate?
AXIS is the straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate..
Why does Earth rotate in its axis?
There is literally no object in the universe that doesn't rotate.Every galaxy, star, planet, moon, asteroid, and comet that we'reable to measure rotates.If we were to observe a body in space that does NOT rotate, thenTHAT would be something intriguing to ask questions about.
Do the Earth and Moon rotate?
Both bodies rotate about their axises and revolve around a larger body.
Does earth revolve on its axis?
Earth does not revolve on it's axis. Well maybe, but an axis is an imaginary line that goes through a body form pole to pole.
Does your body have atoms in them?
Yes. All matter on earth is made of atoms.
How long is the suns years and days?
A year is the time it takes a planet to rotate about its star and a 'day' is the time it takes a planet to rotate once on its axis. Thus as the Sun is a star the concept of a 'year' is irrelevant as it is at the centre of all rotation. In relation to 'day' however, the Sun does rotate on its axis, it takes 25.38 (Earth) days to rotate once at the equator but as it is made of gas, it does not rotate all together like a solid body and the area round the poles rotates more slowly, taking 34.4 (Earth) days to make a revolution.
Why do people on earth never see the far side of the moon?
The moon always revolves around the earth with the same side facing the Earth. The reason is because the moon's period of rotation is the same as its orbital period around the earth. The moon rotates once on its axis every month. As an orbiting body, if the moon did not rotate on its axis, its orbiting motion would expose all of its surface toward the earth at some point during the month.
