Earth's motion around the Sun, not as simple as I thought

Source:
CassioPeia Project

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Earth's Motion
• Earch and Sun
• A year on earth
• CassioPeia Project

[tooncrazy1]

Earth, the drunk planet.

[jefersonvilaede]

yeah but this doesnt explain that the sun is moving through space TOO. so we are following it.

[rEsonansDx]

@RandomUtuber of course it does.. the only problem is,, would you be there to witness it? i think our great great grandsons would be very old. and still the galaxy will not yet complete its revolution. :D

[RandomUtuber]

@rEsonansDx It certainly does! It's call a galaxy, and it completes its very own rotations threw space! Everything we can observe in space is moving, there really is no suck thing as "Stationary"

Whether you believe the big bang where it all started from one point moving outward, or the Biblical "God stretched out the heavens" I think its pretty much accepted by most that everything in space is in constant motion.

Now, does our galaxy revolve around something much bigger? Wouldn't that be cool!?

[rEsonansDx]

So maybe the sun is also rotating and revolves around a bigger object?

[Reynajaimes]

in this video the sun looks like it will flicker out at any second

[Reynajaimes]

a little too complicated

[iorixs]

earth doesnt rotate or anything Tycho Brahe's model is more likely correct

[obits3]

@lmtzn I suppose it would leave the rocket pretty far if it just sling shot out of orbit, lol. Most of our stuff these days takes place in low orbit space, so the earth's gravity keeps those things near the earth. To get to the moon you would have to adjust for all the factors of a moving target (I do suppose it would be easier if you aimed for the angle when the moon is were the earth's orbit is heading too). I hope this is a little more clear.

[lmtzn]

@obits3 Cheers, but still don't get it... the final trajectory won't be the same as the earth's trajectory, it will be a tangent to the curve which will leave the rocket far away from the earth, no?

[obits3]

@lmtzn If you take out air resistance and gravity (like it is in space), then the person person jumping perpendicular to the train will continue to move in two dimensions: #1 - The direction that he jumped and #2 - the direction of the train. The initial speed of these two directions will determine his trajectory.