2006-06-29 20:59:32 · 19 answers · asked by hiltonjay23 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
because the sun's gravitational pull is much greater than the earth's...same reason the moon goes around the earth and not the other way around
2006-06-29 21:01:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Sol has a mass 1,000,000 times that of Terra. Little things are attracted to big things in Space and the little things always revolve around the bigger things. The two are attracted to each other, but the attraction of the Sun to the Earth is very small, while the gravitational attraction of the Earth to the Sun is so large that we are held in an orbit even though we are 93,000,000 miles away. To give you an idea as to how far that is, it takes light 8-1/2 minutes to get from the Sun to here. Light travels through a vacuum (Space) at 186,282.3959 miles per SECOND. The speed of light is known as celerity. It is the "c" in Einstein's Theory of Relativity; E =mc squared. That's as fast as anything can go. Period.
2006-06-30 04:12:10 · answer #2 · answered by christopher s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is because the earth is the less massive object of the two. Thus, when the two objects are doing the gravitational dance, the Earth is the one being 'thrown' around, rather than the sun.
Though, in fact, the Earth does pull the Sun around a bit, but, it is too small to be noticed.
A way of testing this is to swing an item such as a penny around you. Which one does the orbiting, and which one will be the orbited object.
You, being more massive than the penny, will be less pulled by the mass of the penny, than it by you.
2006-06-30 04:05:26 · answer #3 · answered by energeticthinker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth's gravitational pull is weaker than the Sun's so the Earth is pulled around the Sun.
2006-06-30 10:05:30 · answer #4 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth is the Sun DOES go around the Earth. Not only that, but the earth is flat! Don't believe all the "science" they teach you at school ;-)
2006-06-30 04:04:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth, sun and all the other planets orbit about the centre of mass of the solar system. Because the sun has most of the mass of the solar system, the centre of mass lies within the photosphere of the sun, NOT at the centre of the sun. From a distant viewpoint, the sun wobbles and the planets rotate about the mutual centre of mass. The stellar wobble is one method to infer the presence of planets orbiting distant stars.
2006-06-30 04:41:39 · answer #6 · answered by d/dx+d/dy+d/dz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you read relativity? if yes then think. if thee was nothing in space except for the earth and sun what would you say? you would say either is moving around the other. how can you proove that? ( that either the sun moves around the earth or vice versa)
this is just a choice of saying things not fact.
2006-06-30 04:35:43 · answer #7 · answered by ankitd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Sun and Earth do orbit each other. It's just that the Sun is so much more massive, that it hardly moves at all in its orbit around Earth. I'm not bullsh|ting you. Two planetary bodies of equal mass orbit each other in the same orbit.
2006-06-30 04:03:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cuz thats how it is... and besides if the sun moved around earth it would take years and years to change from day to night.
2006-06-30 04:02:33 · answer #9 · answered by Oscar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sun has WAY more gravity than earth, so the sun's gravity pulls the earth around it. just like earth's gravity is more than the moon's, so that's why the moon goes around the earth.
2006-06-30 11:12:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋