2007-02-12 07:59:33 · 9 answers · asked by teran 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Heliocentric, which means "Sun centered".
2007-02-12 08:03:01 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We live in a heliocentric solar system.
Helios in greek means sun. Center is also another word that comes from the greek word "kendro" of the same meaning. So Heliocentric, means that the Sun is at the center
Geo comes from the greek word "Gaia", or Mother Earth. Gaia was, according to the greek mythology, the first goddess who coupled with Uranus (Ouranos in greek meaning sky) gave birth, among others, to the first gods, the Titans of which Kronos (Saturn) was one. (Kronos was the father of Zeus and other gods).
So, geocentric means that the Earth is at the center.
2007-02-16 03:05:02 · answer #2 · answered by Tenebra98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people live in an egocentric universe. But by definition, if it's a solar system, then it's heliocentric. Or else it would have been called a geo system.
2007-02-12 09:36:05 · answer #3 · answered by ⊂( ﾟ ヮﾟ)⊃ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious?
No system could be "planet" centric. How could you get a star, which is thousands to millions of times the mass of a planet, to orbit the planet.
Geocentricity went out when Copernicus, Kepler and galileo showed what nonsense had been engendered in church thinking.
The Greeks were onto it at one stage, but Aristotle ruined all that with his "perfect spheres, perfect Earth" nonsense.
geocentricity has got no place at all in anyone's mind, unless you really believe that the sun, 1.3 million times the size of the Earth, whips around the Earth every 24 hours (along with every other part of the universe).
2007-02-12 08:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by nick s 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you are a creationist, geocentric. To everybody else, heliocentric.
2007-02-12 08:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question but your answerers must realize that geocentric systems in space do exist as do dual sun systems where the suns orbit a space between themselfslike two balls on a string being pulled by each other s gravity. i think their called binary star systems
2007-02-16 02:19:24 · answer #6 · answered by Tony N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other answers are correct. In ancient times, it was thought that the earth was the center of the universe and it was flat. Galelio show that the earth revolved around the sun and was not at the center of the universe.
2007-02-12 08:08:00 · answer #7 · answered by nicewknd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heliocentric
helio is a word part that means sun
2007-02-12 08:02:38 · answer #8 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How would you be able to tell the difference?
2007-02-12 08:29:41 · answer #9 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋