Why do the planets orbit around the earth and every year the sun goes all around us.?

Question

Why?

Answer 1

And where did you learn that one from? WOW!

Answer 2

I'm very sorry to say but that theory is slightly off.... We are the third planet from the sun. The sun is at the center of our solar system and as of now the 7 planets - Pluto not included - are in the suns enormous gravity Field therefore orbiting around it. Also we rotate once every 24 hours making the sun appear to rise and set, and we revolve around the sun a little more each day - 365 days is one revolution- and the tilt of the earth causes seasons and the position of the sun to appear to change which might explain why it "goes all around us." I hope this answers your question a little better...

Answer 3

Your point of view is called "geocentric", or earth centered. It was discovered through math, that the planets must orbit around the sun, or a "heliocentric" view. As for the reason they orbit, every planet has a certain mass, so does the sun. The sun's mass is much greater than any of the planets. Gravity is directly related to mass, so that as mass increases, so does the strength (or acceleration) of gravity. Because of the sun's enormous mass, gravity pulls the planets constantly toward itself. Why do the planets not fall into the sun? Each planet also has a speed that is moving at a right angle to the sun, so as they're pulled inward, they are also moving "forward", and therefore never reach the sun.

Answer 4

That was the geocentric theory created centuries ago which is not correct. The real reason why they believe this was because throughout the day they would see the sun move through the sky so the believed that it must be the sun moving around us. But little did they know that we were the ones moving around the sun. Earth and all the other planets is our solar system orbit the sun. The sun does not move even an inch and it never will. The theory that we orbit around the sun is called the heliocentric theory. Hope this helps

Answer 5

Because this Greek guy ( Aristotle, I think) said so. He was wrong, obviously. He thought that the Earth should be at the center of the solar system because that's where humans live and they're 'almighty'. That;s what he thought. It's a pretty good thought if you consider the technology back then and the thought humans were the best.

But an astronomer ( I think it's Galileo or Copernicus) said that the Earth rotated around the sun with the other planets and was locked up for being right! But (in case you don't know) the planets, including the Earth, do rotate around the sun, which is at the center of the universe.

Answer 6

Planets and the sun do not go around us we and other planets go around the sun! And we also rotate will we are rotating around the sun and in the milky way Galaxy we are on a orbit and each planet has its own "ring" or spot orbiting the sun the further you get the more cooler it probably is
it goes like
mercury
Venus
earth
mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune and Pluto
is not considered at planet anymore because they're are meteors bigger then Pluto so that would mean that all those meteors would have to be considered as planets!!!
I hope i helped!

Answer 7

Why do the planets and the Sun seem to go arround us?

That's just an optical illusion. In reality, what's happening, is that Earth is constantly spinning arround an axis that goes through the poles. Here is an easy way to see what's going on: Draw a couple stars on your wall(or just imagine them), now, while standing, start spinning, and keep looking fordward. You will see the stars going arround you, however, you know that the stars you drew are not moving at all. That's the same effect we see when we look at the sky.

But how did we know that Earth was spinning on it's own axis, and arround the sun?

The first people who noticed this used advanced physics knowledge that you probably won't ever need, so there is no point explaining how they did it. However, in modern days, we can send cameras to space, and they can see what exactly is going on(we don't really need to, but we can). Pretty much like if in the room you were spinning, a third person was present. That person would have been able to tell that you were in fact the one spinning, and not the stars painted in the wall.

Answer 8

The earth goes around the sun BECAUSE:

The earth is moving... Nothing is there to make it stop (practically speaking)...

The gravity of the sun is "pulling the earth" towards it. However, the earth wants to keep moving in a straight line (why should it want anything else?)... Therefore the earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun which is basically nature's compromise between moving in both a straight line AND towards the sun...

By the way, the sun is moving too... The sun is just one of a billion stars in our galaxy (right at the outer edge of an arm of the spiral)... It takes roughly 65 million years for galaxy to complete one full cycle.

Answer 9

You're talking about how people believed things were until about 400 years ago.

The planets don't orbit the earth, neither does the sun.

The only thing that orbits the earth is our moon and a lot of manmade junk and satellites we put in orbit.

The earth (and the other planets, comets, asteroids, and dwarf planets in our system) orbit our sun.

Our sun orbits the galactic centre (about once every 200 million years).

Our galaxy is slowly orbiting the centre of gravity of our Local Group of galaxies (estimates range from once every 5 billion years to once every 8 billion years).

Answer 10

Wrong..! The sun is the center of our solar system. All the planets orbit around the sun, not the Earth. The orbits and other motions of the planets and sun are motions taken from the cloud of gas and dust in which they all formed.

Answer 11

Sorry love but Humans discovered we weren't the center of or solar system a long time ago....we are in fact as with the other planets in our solar system are elliptically orbiting our sun. Due to the sun's gravitational force anything with a lower gravitational force (determined by mass and density) such as Earth is attracted into it's orbit.