2006-07-09 16:35:09 · 21 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The Sun and Earth revolve around a common point. Because the Sun is so much more massive than the Earth, that point lies within the sphere of the Sun. If the Sun and the Earth had the same mass, they would revolve around a point that was equidistant between them.
2006-07-09 16:43:38 · answer #1 · answered by justjim 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No but the moon does. The earth revolves around the sun not the other way around =)
2006-07-09 23:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by wutsupdog345 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth revolves around the sun, but the earth has a wobble... so in philosophical theory the sun then could revolve around the earth.
2006-07-09 23:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Justjim is correct. As a binary system viewed from ouside the solar system, the sun and earth would appear to revolve around their mutual center of mass, which lies within the sun but not at its center. The same is true of the Earth and moon. They're also doing a mutual dance with outstretched arms meeting at their mutual center of mass. The Earth just has a very short arm. :-)
2006-07-10 01:25:04 · answer #4 · answered by mathematician 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really becaus ethere is the effects of all the other planets on the sun. Now the Earth does revolve around the moon and vice versa because it is just the two.
2006-07-09 23:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. the sun stays in one place. if the sun also revolved around the earth, then only one part of the earth would recieve sunlight year-long.
2006-07-09 23:39:05 · answer #6 · answered by Natedogg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no...the earth revolves around the sun
2006-07-09 23:39:11 · answer #7 · answered by Rica8907 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some philosophers were goofing around in a park, and one of them began to chase a squirrel. He chased it to the trunk of a tree where the squirrel ran to the opposite side. As the pursuer walked around the tree, trying to catch a glimpse of the thing, the squirrel moved perfectly in unison, so that the squirrel was always on the opposite side of the trunk from the pursuer.
The philosophers later asked, did our friend go around the squirrel?
2006-07-09 23:45:24 · answer #8 · answered by ibluke21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the sun does. During the time of Nicolaus Copernicus the world was flat.
2006-07-10 00:47:49 · answer #9 · answered by Qyn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, this is a heleocentric solar system, Earth is in orbit of the Sun.
2006-07-09 23:42:25 · answer #10 · answered by suppy_sup 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋