Earth as a cosmic matter
The Solar System
Desk or round shape? Elliptical orbits? The Sun-Centre of the Universe? Heliocentric system Gravitation Mikulas Kopernik Johannes Kepler Issac Newton
Different Climatic Zones
About 4.75 billion years ago…
…out of solar nebula
Weight: 80 times smaller Distance:60 times Earth’s radius
Important sunlight
Ocean tides
Earth’s rotation around the Sun The Sun The orbital speed: 30km/sec The length: 940mil.km The time: 365days 5hours 48min 45.7sec = 1sidereal year
Earth’s rotation around its axis Time of rotation: 23 hours 56 minutes seconds = 1 sidereal/astral day
The cause of the seasons is that the rotation axis is not perpendicular to its orbital plane, but makes an angle about degrees.
Diagram of the Earth's seasons as seen from the north. Far right: December solstice
Diagram of the Earth's seasons as seen from the south. Far left: June solstice
Time zones