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Question about Earth's orbit
If I were looking at the earth in such a way that I was looking
straight down at the north pole, is the earth orbiting clockwise or counterclockwise around the sun? Are all the bodies orbiting the sun orbiting in the same direction? Thanks, Colin |
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Question about Earth's orbit
"Colin" wrote in message oups.com... If I were looking at the earth in such a way that I was looking straight down at the north pole, is the earth orbiting clockwise or counterclockwise around the sun? Are all the bodies orbiting the sun orbiting in the same direction? In case this is a homework question, let me first suggest you can work it out from the fact that the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west. George |
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Question about Earth's orbit
On Feb 21, 12:46 pm, "George Dishman"
wrote: "Colin" wrote in message oups.com... If I were looking at the earth in such a way that I was looking straight down at the north pole, is the earth orbiting clockwise or counterclockwise around the sun? Are all the bodies orbiting the sun orbiting in the same direction? In case this is a homework question, let me first suggest you can work it out from the fact that the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west. George Thats a bit cold George, without adding: "and orbital speeds are higher closer to the primary". - For the first question, and: "Mostly yes." for the second. MadDog "No generality is true. - Not even this one." - (Rutherford?) MadDog |
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Question about Earth's orbit
Colin (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
.com: If I were looking at the earth in such a way that I was looking straight down at the north pole, is the earth orbiting clockwise or counterclockwise around the sun? Are all the bodies orbiting the sun orbiting in the same direction? Thanks, Colin Isn't that what *defines* the "north pole" of a spinning body? -- Terms and conditions apply. Batteries not included. Subject to status. Contains moderate language. Always read the label. Keep out of children. Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply |
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Question about Earth's orbit
Thang about "learned" folk?...(aside from always tellin
ya to RTFM?) they hate to have to see someone else learn sumthin more better er simpler than they did. Colin!...Imagine your hovering high above the Earths equater...k?(notice that the Earth spins by from left to right)(cause the sun rises in the East)... now advance yerself north along an arch til yers above the north pole....you'll see a counterclockwise rotation ....and hey pot smoking is great for geometrical imagining..... Says The Shloe --peace "Colin" wrote in message oups.com... If I were looking at the earth in such a way that I was looking straight down at the north pole, is the earth orbiting clockwise or counterclockwise around the sun? Are all the bodies orbiting the sun orbiting in the same direction? Thanks, Colin |
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Question about Earth's orbit
"Colin" wrote in message oups.com... If I were looking at the earth in such a way that I was looking straight down at the north pole, is the earth orbiting clockwise or counterclockwise around the sun? Counterclockwise. Are all the bodies orbiting the sun orbiting in the same direction? No, only most. Keep in mind that space is three-dimensional, no two planets are in the same plane and a comet can easily come from above or below and be going clockwise. Our own satellite, the Moon, is not in the same plane as the Earth. http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib...nom_moon-1.gif Notice the shadow. The Earth-Moon distance is not to scale, but the picture is a good illustration. If it were not so inclined all eclipses would appear only in the tropics, never far North or South. |
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wrote in message oups.com... On Feb 21, 12:46 pm, "George Dishman" wrote: "Colin" wrote in message oups.com... If I were looking at the earth in such a way that I was looking straight down at the north pole, is the earth orbiting clockwise or counterclockwise around the sun? Are all the bodies orbiting the sun orbiting in the same direction? In case this is a homework question, let me first suggest you can work it out from the fact that the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Thats a bit cold George, If he'd come back and said "it's not homework" I would have given him the answer. without adding: "and orbital speeds are higher closer to the primary". - For the first question, True, but what relevance does that have to his question regarding the direction of rotation? and: "Mostly yes." for the second. Yes, I could have noted that and that Uranus is the exception. http://www.nineplanets.org/ George |
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