I found this answer: This motion is due to the rotation of the Earth. In the same way, the stars appear to rise in the east and set in the west because the Earth is rotating west to east. However, the orbital motion of the Earth, caused by the Earth's revolving around the sun causes the Sun to move eastward along the ecliptic from one day the next, the opposite of it's daily motion. In other words, the Earth orbits the Sun in the direction west to east so that the Sun appears to move eastward along the ecliptic.
but it still doesn't make sense to me??? grr!
2006-09-12 22:05:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The earth rotates West to East.
East then is in the front of the travel.
The front will encounter things first, such as the morning sun.
2006-09-12 22:24:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a little demonstration. Stand up and turn continuously around to the right. Notice how objects in the room are passing out of sight to your left as you turn right. Similarly, as Earth rotates "right" or east, things like the Sun and stars disappear over the "left" or western horizon.
Now instead of turning in place, walk in a circle around the room, to your right. Things will also move in your field of vision. To mimic the Earth's daily rotation and its orbital motion, you would have to turn yourself around 365 times while you walk around the room once. It would not be easy to do. It would be a frustratingly slow trip around the room and you would get dizzy and loose count of your rotations before completing one circuit. But if you could do it, and you put a chair in the middle of the room to represent the Sun, then you would notice that the chair appears against the background of different parts of the room each time you turn once, and after one trip around the room and 365 rotations of your body, you are back where you started.
2006-09-13 03:00:51 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sun is stationary at the center of our planetary system. Earth is revolving round the sun in clock wise direction and also at the same time it rotates on its own axis from west to east. Earth is doing both rotation and revolutionary motions at the same time. Hence it appears that Sun rises in the east and sets on the west...cheers..
2006-09-13 01:15:41 · answer #3 · answered by wisecrack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if you think of it carefully, if the sun rotates from west to east, it is going to be the east side that comes into contact with either the suns rays or the darkness of the night sky first.
get two objects, circular shaped if you can, but even 2 glasses or cups will do. sit one as the sun and the other as earth. mark 2 points on the earth (east and west). if you rotate the glass clockwise (ie west to east), because the sun is stationary, it appears in our sky as moving from east to west. so as the earth rotates, the less sunlight that hits the earth, the darker our sky becomes so as we rotate away from the sun, the darkness of the sky will go from east to west too...
2006-09-12 22:08:52 · answer #4 · answered by Showaddywaddy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you drive north, everything passing you looks to be headed south.
The orbit of the earth around the sun shifts the sunrise time about 4 minutes each day. Has little to do with your basic question.
2006-09-12 22:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by SAN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the earth is not round,thats a hoax,its flat an the sun revolves around the earth,thats why
2006-09-13 02:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by john doe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not rocket science... due to the earhts angle of inclination it appears to move along the ecliptic... if the earth was absolutely perpendicular to it's orbit it wouldn't
2006-09-12 22:12:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What Tom S said was correct and concise.
2006-09-12 22:29:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋