What would happen if the Earth stopped revolving around the Sun, but still rotated and didn't plummet into it?

Question

I know that the Earth would fall into the sun, however, if by some reason it didn't, what would mainly happen to the weather?

Answer 1

if the earth stopped rotating but didnt fall into the sun with rotation, we would have no seasons. whatever season you were experiencing, it would last forever. it would also have a dire effect on vegetation and wildlife as they depend on changing of the seasons. might also cause floods and loss of some land since some ice caps would melt.

Answer 2

You would feel nothing. Maybe a little heavier depending on where on earth you are located. At the equator you weigh about 0.3 percent lighter due to rotation than at the north or south pole where there is none. So if the earth stopped rotating your weight would go up a little. If we quit revolving around the sun, I would guess that the sun would get bigger and bigger and the temperature hotter and hotter and then we would crash into it and, well, that would be that. If the earth didn't rotate, a "day" would now be 365 days long. 182 and a half days of "night" and then the same length of "day".

Answer 3

If the earth stopped revolving around the sun, there is no point for it to keep on rotating..

Because it is going to fall into the sun!

The earth is still revolving around the sun because of its inertia. It wont stop because at space, there is no friction..

The sun gravity make sure the earth stay in the orbit. If there is no sun, we might just shoot out of the galaxy..

Answer 4

The earth revolves around the sun because of inertia. That is the only force preventing us to be dosed in radiation as we speak. So without inertia we would plummet into the sun.

But if we did keep rotating and we somehow stabilized the earths location...
We'd just be stuck on 1 season and animals everywhere will be confused with there migratory patterns. Animals depending on these patterns will surely be killed off.

Answer 5

The earth can't stop orbiting the sun and not fall into the sun, it's basic physics, the centripetal force of the orbit counteracts the suns gravity.

If the earth suddenly stops orbiting we fall into the sun and have a very bad last couple of days.

Answer 6

Well, saying it did not plummet to the sun, I would say the seasons would stop and it stay whatever is was at the time. If, it was winter then it stay winter all the time. There would still be night and day.

Answer 7

It would indeed fall toward the sun, as it is the revolution about it that keeps earth from doing so.