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To: dangerdoc

How could the year be the same, we must have been in a really fast orbit around the sun.


49 posted on 02/17/2017 9:18:39 AM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG ...)
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To: Domestic Church

The speed of rotation and the orbit period are independent. If the days were shorter, there would have been more of them in a year but it would still take the same amount of time to circle the sun.

365 days in a year is just a rough approximation, some years there are 366. If the earth were spinning twice as fast, there would be would be more than 700 days in a year but the year would still the same length of time and you would age one year, not two or 1/2.


52 posted on 02/17/2017 9:28:10 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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