Hint -The answer is not the obvious one!
2007-09-28 17:29:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The earth rotates on it's axis exactly 365.25 (give or take some enormous decimal) times each year, which is why every four years we add an extra day to February. (Leap Year)
2007-09-28 17:38:31 · answer #1 · answered by Josh 6 · 4⤊ 16⤋
It is 366.25. Each day, the time between 12am midnight and 12am midnight, the earth rotates about 360.986 degrees, the extra 0.986 degrees are due to the sun not being in the same place relative to the earth due to the earth moving around the sun. There are 365.25 days but to get the number of rotations you calculate (days in a year * rotations in a day = rotations in a year) which is 365.25*(360.986/360) = 366.25
2015-04-14 02:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 6⤊ 1⤋
The question is, how many times the earth rotate on its axis in one year? The earth rotates 365 and 1/4 yearly on its imaginary axis.Every leap year it rotates 366 times on its axis. To go further, the earth rotates 365 and 1/4, on its rotational force of energy, plus one more rotation on its revolutionary force of energy. In total the earth rotates 366 times per year. This extra earth rotation yearly, is the product of a phenomena we call synchronous rotation. Just like the moon, it rotates once every orbit about earth, not on its imaginary axis, but on its offset axis. The earth does the same, 365 and 1/4 on its axis and one more rotation on its offset axis,due to the yearly revolutionary period around the sun. How do i know this? Because i have solved the phenomena of the synchronous rotation of the moon. The earth speaks for its self. If the earth did not behave like the moon always facing one same side, we would be in trouble with our time clock. Every six months, 12.00 o'clock noon would become 12.00 o'clock midnight. This does not happen on my watch. Each day, 24 hours, the earth rotates 360 degrees plus the amount of travel in degree around the sun on its revolutionary cycle. Therefore, 24 hours one earth day is the product of two forces, the rotational cycle and the revolutionary cycle. In total one day is composed of 361 degree. This extra degree is not correct. It would be less than one degree. If one is to calculate the accuracy it would be .9385... of a degree. This number is not accurate. I do not have the time or patient to calculate it, but it would be less than one degree. This is only the tip of the ice-burg. Just imagine when all is shown and known about our earth, the moon, the planets, our solar system and all that the universe holds. It is important to know the truth, rather than to live in darkness as in Galileo Galilei time. Our children future depends upon a solid foundation to build upon. For the love of humanity, I am gifted to see the unseen, a gift given to me, for mankind to prosper, here and other worlds yet to be discovered. Bye for now. Adone (2K ONE-AD)
2014-11-09 02:32:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
If the Earth didn't rotate at all, as it revolved around the sun the earth would pass through one day night cyle and since it rotates anti-clockwise and revoves around the sun anti-clockwise as viewed above the north pole it stands that the earth actually rotates 366.25 times.
2013-12-19 09:08:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
One rotation of the Earth, 360 degrees as measured by the stars, takes 23 hours 56 minutes. This is called a sidereal day. There are 366.25 sidereal days each year.
One rotation as measured by the Sun, however, takes 24 hours. This is a solar day and it's what we normally think of when we say the word "day." There are 365.25 solar days per year.
A solar day is longer because as the Earth revolves around the Sun, that movement causes the apparent position of the Sun to wander eastward compared to the stars. So the Earth has to do a little extra turning for the Sun to return to its starting point. In one solar day, the Earth actually turns about 361 degrees.
2007-09-28 17:43:51 · answer #5 · answered by stork5100 4 · 6⤊ 5⤋
People there is a big difference between a ROTATION and a REVOLUTION. Take a science class already before you try to answer a science related question.
2007-09-29 01:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by Luna Maya 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
365.242375
How can you thumbs down this answer? It is how many times it rotates to the millionth of a rotation. Hence why just a leap year every 4 years doesn't cut it.
2007-09-28 17:39:13 · answer #7 · answered by John L 2 · 2⤊ 9⤋
Once around the sun. About 12 times withing the moon. And 365.2422 times around its own axis.
2007-09-28 19:07:12 · answer #8 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
It rotates on its axis once every 24 hours right? There are 365 24-hour periods in a year... so...?
24 x 365? 8760?
2007-09-28 17:33:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 6⤋
365 or 366 times.
2007-09-28 17:37:45 · answer #10 · answered by otakunerd 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋