How many hours does it take the sun to orbit each planet?

Answer 1

The Sun is the center of the solar system. The Sun does not orbit, the planets orbit the sun.

From a planet's viewpoint, i.e. looking at the sun from the earth, it appears that the sun orbits the earth once a day! But that is not what is happening! There are two things happening:

# The earth is spinning on its own axis, about once every twenty four hours. The sun, being stationary, appears to fly across the sky with slow majestic regularity. # At the same time, whilst spinning like a top, the earth is also rotating in a huge circle around the sun. It is such a big circle that it takes the earth a full year to go round the sun just once! This rotation around the sun is the orbit of the planet. Here is a list of how long it takes each planet in our solar system to orbit the sun, shown in earth-days/years:

* Mercury 87.97 days * Venus 224.70 days * Earth 365.25 days * Mars 686.98 days * Jupiter 11.862 years * Saturn 29.456 years * Uranus 84.07 years * Neptune 164.81 years * Pluto 247.7 years To convert days to hours, multiply days by 24.

To convert years to hours, multiply years by 8766.1536 (i.e. 365.2564 x 24) BY: Andrei Ruckman