The Solar System

the rotation of the earth is..

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The solar system is... the consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity. These objects are the eight planets and their 166 known moons; three dwarf planets and their four known moons; and billions of small bodies, including asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, comets, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust.

 

 

The rotation of the earth is (clockwise or counter clockwise)- The Earth rotates towards the east, which can be observed by orientation with a magnetic compass at sunrise. As viewed from the star Polaris, the Earth turns counter-clockwise.

 

The speed of the eath around the sun is...Speed of the Earth's Revolution around the Sun:
Radius of the Earth's Orbit = 1 AU = 150,000,000 kilometers
Circumference of the Earth's Orbit = 2*pi*R = 942,000,000 kilometers
Time to complete one Orbit = 365.2422 days = 8766 hr

 

The distance from the earth to the sun is...The distance between Earth and Sun is probably the least critical with respect to the average temperatures on Earth. The distance between Earth and Sun is about 92 million miles and the change in distance due to the eccentric orbit of Earth around the Sun is around 3 million miles. This is a small percent of the actual distance between the Earth and the Sun, and will hence not cause an appreciable change in the average temperature (especially when considering the actual change in temperature on account of seasons).