2006-06-29 12:47:22 · 16 answers · asked by soccer fan 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Solar System is believed to be around 4.5 billion years old. Hence, ignoring any changes in the length of the year, the Earth has orbited the sun 4.5 billion times.
2006-06-29 12:56:51 · answer #1 · answered by Dragon Dave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on what you call "the Earth". It started as an accrestion disk of dust which slowly built up over millions of years. It kept getting bigger and bigger. At what point was it Earth? If you call it Earth when it's the size of a marble, then it has gone around a lot mroe times than if you call it Earth when it's the size of what we now have as a moon. It gone fewer times still if you call it Earth at it's present size.
Your question assumes that there was some point in time when it suddenly went from being a ball of dirst to being Earth. There was nobody around to wave the red flag at theat point, so there can be no such point.
Thus, there can be no answer more accurate than within a few billion.
2006-06-29 14:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by Waynez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that question is about in possable too answer cause none of us were here at the begining of time and u would have to go back and count for before christ (BC) was born and noone exactly knows when all that happened we only have some documentation about it all. so ur question is hard to answer it the earth goes around the sun once a year so that is over 2006 times cause we cant go back and count how many times from BC to now. but in the bible the earth is only like 3-4 million years old so... id say the earth has gone around the sun about 3-4 million times. i hope i helped
2006-06-29 12:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "beginning of time" is when the universe began, about 14-billion years ago. Earth and the Sun didn't exist then. Earth formed about 4.5-billion years ago. It takes one year to go around the Sun once, so Earth has gone around the Sun about 4.5-billion times.
2006-06-29 17:11:19 · answer #4 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2006 times
2006-06-29 12:50:56 · answer #5 · answered by Mike T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once around each year since the beginning of time. Of course , hypothetically if time started a billions years ago, It's still once for every year, so said that, a billion times.
2006-06-29 18:29:14 · answer #6 · answered by papo9112001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe is about 14 billion years old, which is I guess when time began, but the Earth is 'only' 4.5 billion years old, so the answer I've seen is correct: 4.5 billion orbits.
2006-06-29 13:48:52 · answer #7 · answered by fresh2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 4.5 billion times.
2006-06-29 12:58:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Four billion times, give or take.
2006-06-29 13:48:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 4.5 billion.
2006-06-29 14:55:26 · answer #10 · answered by Keith P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋