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Dose the sun move in the sky?
The earth orbits round the sun, whilst spinning at the same time, so when the sun sets, its just because we have spun round so we are not facing it. when the sun rises, its because the earth has spun back around to face it. so no the sun stays in the same place, the earth moves.
Do both earth and moon orbit the sun?
In my point of view...no the moon orbits the earth which orbits the sun. So, the moon orbits something orbiting the sun.______________It is understandable that someone would come to the above conclusion. However, this might put a different 'spin' on it. It is not only the moon that is doing all the orbiting in the earth-moon system. If you stop to think, that would be strange, and in fact impossible. There is a mutual tug between earth and moon, since after all both bodies have considerable mass. So strange as it might seem, earth and moon are actually orbiting each other. In fact of all the moons in the solar system, our moon is the largest when viewed as a proportion of its home planet's mass. Notice that I did not say that our moon is the largest moon in the solar system.Because earth's mass is still much larger than the moon's mass, the center around which the earth and moon orbit is actually inside the body of the earth. This point is called the Barycenter, and of course it is constantly moving within the body of the earth as the earth spins and the moon orbits. The result is that earth's orbit around the sun has a wave or wobble to it, as it moves in concert with the moon.All of this to say that since the earth and the moon constitute a system, and since they really orbit around one another, there is no reason to say that one orbits the sun to the exclusion of the other. Both orbit the sun as a system.
How was tycho brahe's theory of the universe different from those of the earlier astronomers?
Roughly, the Tycho Brahe model of the solar system was something between the ptolemic geocentric model of the solar system and the copernican heliocentric model. The sun still revolved around the earth but all other planets revolved around the sun. Interestingly, it was Tycho's pupil Kepler, that refined the Copernican model to include elliptical orbits (until then, orbits were assumed to be perfect circles).
Does Earth pull the moon toward it?
Earth and moon pull on each other, with equal force. That's how gravity works. As the result, earth and moon both revolve around their mutual center of mass ... the point where the pivot would have to be in order for the earth and moon to balance each other at opposite ends of a see-saw. Since the earth's mass is about 80 times the moon's mass, the point around which the two bodies orbit happens to be inside the earth, so somebody who's watching from far away would swear that the moon orbits the earth while the earth stands still.
Can compare an artificial satellite with the moon How they the same How they different?
A planet orbits a star (and clears its orbit - new rule - which is why Pluto is now not a planet), while a moon orbits a planet. Someday they will find something that orbits a moon and need a new name. Some moons are bigger than some planets, or at least were before the latest rule change. A star that orbits another star is still a star in its own right. There are objects which are not quite full stars and not quite planets.
What does the moon have?
the sun stays still the earth ROTATES and orbits while the earth ORBITS on its AXIS it turns around till it is dark and the moon orbits around the earth.
Is there moon on the Earth?
The moon is not on the earth if it was we all would be dead because we would have been squashed by the moon and the gravitaty. but the moon orbits the earth and the earth orbits the sun. it is like a racetrack when your watching a cartoon and they get hit in the head and birds are flying around their head. its like the racecar driver was driving still and got hit in the head and had the birds flying around it.
The fact that the position of the constellation seems to change throughout the year is evidence that?
It is evidence that the earth orbits around the sun.
Can you escape the earth gravity by going to the moon?
No. If you are on the moon, then the moon is the dominant gravitational body in your area, but the moon still orbits Earth and so is still very much under the influence of Earth's gravity.
How does the sun moon and earth orbit?
The sun does not orbit the earth and moon. The moon orbits the earth and both orbit the sun.
Does the moon remain still as it orbits around the earth?
The moon's orbital speed around the Earth is about 1.02 Km/s. Think carefully about the question. Orbiting is a motion, so the moon cannot possibly be still while it orbits. Perhaps you are wondering about the moon spinning on its axis. It is easy to see that some people might think that the moon does not spin on its axis, since the same face orients toward earth all the time. However, the moon does have to spin on its axis, one time for every orbit. This is why the same face orients toward earth all the time.
Does the moon orbit the earth or the earth orbit the moon?
The Moon orbits the Earth, but technically, the Moon and Earth orbit each other, around their center of mass. Due to the Moon's size, the Moon-Earth system is sometimes called a "binary planet" system.A little bit of both. Earth is much more massive than the Moon so the Moon mostly goes around Earth, but the Moon does still tug Earth around somewhat.The Moon helps with the Earth's tides.In more scientific language, the Earth and Moon both rotate around their common centre of mass, called the barycentre.This is actually inside the planet Earth. So, although it's not strictly correct, it'spretty accurate to say that the Moon orbits the Earth.
If Earth did not turn on its axis could you still define an ecliptic?
Yes. The ecliptic plane is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. From where we sit, it appears as the path (line) that the sun travels through the stars. The 'signs' of astrology originated as the constellations along that line. All of this is associated with the earth's revolution around the sun, not its daily rotation.
Dose the sun move in the sky?
The earth orbits round the sun, whilst spinning at the same time, so when the sun sets, its just because we have spun round so we are not facing it. when the sun rises, its because the earth has spun back around to face it. so no the sun stays in the same place, the earth moves.
How many times does the moon orbit the sun?
No one knows because no one was alive at the beginning so we can only guess how old the earth is. the moon goes around the earth once a day. the dinosaurs were born trillions of years ago, do the math!
Why don't planets collide when orbiting around the Sun?
They did, early in the formation of the solar system. But the planets still around today have established stable orbits far from each other. None of the major planets have orbits that intersect, but Pluto and some other small planetoids exist in "harmonic resonance" with the orbit of Neptune, the outermost major planet. And some asteroids that cross the orbits of Earth and other planets have likewise attained orbits that seldom if ever bring them close enough for a collision.
How high above the earth does an orbit have to be?
Orbit can't be maintained in atmosphere. Some temporary low orbits are possible at lower heights. About the lowest possible orbit around the earth is 80 km high, but it will decay rapidly because it is still in the earth's atmosphere (the thermosphere). Even where the atmosphere is extremely thin (only a few molecules of gas in a cubic meter), the friction will eventually slow the orbit of a satellite or vehicle, and it will fall to earth.
