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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 7:38 am
(June 16, 2016 at 7:05 am)Alex K Wrote: (June 16, 2016 at 6:41 am)madog Wrote:
I just brought it up as I thought it might have been a trick question ...
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It just threw me as "Earth rotate" was all that was required in my opinion.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 7:59 am
yep. adding an extra day going around the sun got me big time.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 9:45 am
(June 16, 2016 at 7:59 am)ignoramus Wrote: yep. adding an extra day going around the sun got me big time.
Loosing an extra day actually. If the Earth was rotating opposite to its orbit then there would be an extra day (367.242 days per year). The same would be true, of course, for the moon. If it didn't rotate at all relative to the earth, then from earth it would appear to make a complete rotation every 27 days, but in reality it just travelled around the earth facing whatever side was closest to the earth.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 2:11 pm
(June 16, 2016 at 2:15 am)Maelstrom Wrote: Was I the only one who got the answer right?
More importantly, was I the only one who got it wrong?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Ahhhhhhhhh I see the trick.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 11:59 pm
I know there's a difference between rotation and revolution. One happens 365.242 times or so a year and the other only once.
I picked 365.242...
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 17, 2016 at 10:27 pm
(June 14, 2016 at 10:40 pm)Losty Wrote: (June 14, 2016 at 10:36 pm)ignoramus Wrote: What's the difference?
According to Google, a calendar year is either 364 or 365 days.
An earth year is 365.25 days but some sites say 366.25
It takes the Earth 24 hours to make 1 rotation (day) and it takes 365 1/4 days to make 1 revolution (year) around the sun. So the answer is 365.242 which is approximately 365 1/4 days
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 17, 2016 at 10:34 pm
The earth takes about 23 hours and 56 minutes for one rotation. During the rotation, the earth has changed position around the sun. The earth has to rotate about .98 degrees (about 4 min) further to catch up. This extra rotation times 365.25 days adds one extra rotation for the earth.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 17, 2016 at 10:44 pm
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(June 17, 2016 at 10:27 pm)Sheed1980 Wrote: It takes the Earth 24 hours to make 1 rotation (day) and it takes 365 1/4 days to make 1 revolution (year) around the sun. So the answer is 365.242 which is approximately 365 1/4 days
Yes, as above it takes about 23 hours and 56 minutes to make a full rotation, not 24 hours which is an illusion caused by the planet's orbit. If the planet was rotating in the opposite direction at the same speed then there would in fact be 367.242 days per year.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 18, 2016 at 1:56 am
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(June 17, 2016 at 10:44 pm)Aractus Wrote: (June 17, 2016 at 10:27 pm)Sheed1980 Wrote: It takes the Earth 24 hours to make 1 rotation (day) and it takes 365 1/4 days to make 1 revolution (year) around the sun. So the answer is 365.242 which is approximately 365 1/4 days
Yes, as above it takes about 23 hours and 56 minutes to make a full rotation, not 24 hours which is an illusion caused by the planet's orbit. If the planet was rotating in the opposite direction at the same speed then there would in fact be 367.242 days per year. Because of ur knowledge of math, astronomy and science, from my religious standpoint as a practicing Muslim, u might be interested in many of the miracles listed in the Qur'an, the scripture sent to man in the 7th century. A time period where technology did not yet exist, where today's technology verifies that this scripture could only have come from God Himself
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