How long does it take for the earth to rotate around the sun completely?
2007-06-02 18:10:44 · 11 answers · asked by Iamtheoneandonly 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Earth revolves around the Sun, it doesn't rotate around the Sun. It makes one revolution every 365.25 days. That's why we have a leap year every 4 years.
2007-06-02 20:17:56 · answer #1 · answered by Tikimaskedman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Earth rotates on its axis, spinning, and revolves about the sun, traveling an elliptical path like a blue rubber ball on a string being whirled around a much larger blazing hot yellow giant ball, as the other planets of various size at various distance are also whirling--Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus , Neptune and the iceworlds, no longer being universally called "planets" by all scientists because they did not evolve as the other planets did precisely.
It takes 365 1/4 solar days, 24 hours long each, for the Earth to complete that journey at a mean distance of 93 million miles from the parent sun, Sol, a G type middle-sized yellow star.
Earth itself has a large satellite whirling around it, the Moon, 240, 000 miles out. When the Earth moves between a visible moon and the sun that causes a lunar eclipse; when the moon, less often, travels between the Earth and the sun, that causes a solar eclipse.
2007-06-02 19:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A bit under 365 and 1/4 days.
2007-06-02 18:15:10 · answer #3 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
365 1/4 days. The 1/4 day contributes for the leap year every 4 years.
2007-06-02 18:33:50 · answer #4 · answered by visind4u 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ABOUT 1 YEAR
2014-10-15 13:06:48 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
abt 365 1/4 days
2007-06-02 19:22:09 · answer #6 · answered by NATALIE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 365 days and 6 hours.
2007-06-02 22:32:14 · answer #7 · answered by neutron 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the planet is tilted at an angle of 23.5' and its spinning axis is 23.93 hours and to orbit the sun it takes 365.26 days. the earth is 93 million miles away from the sun (149.6 million km).
2007-06-03 12:49:23 · answer #8 · answered by big bounce 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
365 days 366 days once every 4 years
2007-06-02 18:17:36 · answer #9 · answered by Kristenite’s Back! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
23 hours 56 minutes 4.09 seconds
2007-06-02 18:15:36 · answer #10 · answered by babycakesconner 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋