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Another question for which we cannot be certain of the answer.
However, we can be fairly sure that some of what we call "fundamental laws of nature" will act predictably. One of these is the "law of conservation of angular momentum". Another is the law of gravity.
The matter that made up our solar system was, five billion years ago, an enormous cloud of dust and gas. Some of the gas had been floating around in space since the Big Bang, 9 billion years before, but a lot of it had been inside one or more giant stars that had gone nova and exploded, or gone supernova and REALLY exploded. And some modern scientists believe that even the energy of a supernova would have been insufficient to create really heavy elements like gold and uranium; that these elements could only be formed in the collisions of neutron stars crashing into each other. But we know that there is, in megaton lots, gold and uranium on and in the Earth.....
Anyway, the gas and dust blown into space by the explosions and collisions gathered in space, and the universal attraction of gravity started to pull it all in together. But the gas and dust atoms were all moving, and not all in the same direction; we believe that there was, overall, some net "spin" to the gas cloud. As gravity pulled it all in together, the collection of the angular momentum, or "spin energy", of the proto-solar system was all maintained - but to keep the same angular momentum in a smaller area, the amount of spin must increase.
So, the spinning of the Sun, and the energy of the planets in their orbits, and the spinning of each of the planets, was all contained in the spin of the original dust cloud. This would explain, for example, why all the planets (and almost all of the asteroids) all orbit the Sun going pretty much the same way, and why the rotations of all but two of the planets is in the same direction. (Venus rotates "backwards", but VERY slowly, while the spin of Uranus is"sideways" compared to the ecliptic.)
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What is a description of solar system in which all planets revolve around earth?
Geocentricism is the belief that the Earth is the center of the Universe and all other celestial objects revolve around it. (The Geocentric Theory)
What is the purpose for the planets to revolve around the sun if earth is known to be the only planet with living organisms on it?
every planet has a certain amount of days to reach a year. So just like earth, other planets would have to revolve around the earth. (this was an easy question to not already be answered)
What did neil bhor do?
neil bhor told us that atoms can be visualized as solar system for e.g. atom (sun) electrons (planets) inside the atom the electrons revolve like the planets around the sun answered by trigun kohli from shri ram mellennum school , noida class 7th
What are small rocky objects that revolve around the Sun called?
Objects smaller than planets and dwarf planets, which are not moons, are called asteroids.The smallest are called meteoroids, especially when they encounter a larger body, and micrometeoroids if they are as small as grains of sand or dust, or even smaller.(because of their low mass, micrometeors can survive atmospheric deceleration to reach the surface)
The time it takes for the moon to revolve around the earth is approximately?
28 days.
What are characteristic of planets?
planets do not shine with their own energy but shine because of energy of stars. they revolve around stars
What do moons revolve around?
They revolve around planets.
Do the planets revolve around the earth?
No all planets revolve around the nearest star. In our case, the sun.
What two planets revolve around the sun other than Pluto?
All planets revolve around the Sun.
What large objects revolve around the sun?
Planets revolve around the sun.
Who stated that planets revolve around the sun in an ellipse?
Johannes Kepler stated that the planets revolve around the sun in an ellipse.
What do the planets do around the sun?
They revolve.
What do the planets all revolve around?
they revolve around the sun 's gravitational power
Does sun revolve around any planet?
no, all the planets revolve AROUND the sun.
Why do planets revolve around the sun if there is no friction or gravity?
The planets revolve around the sun because of the sun's gravitational pull. The larger the object is the more gravitational pull it has therefore the planets revolve around the sun and the moon revolves around the Earth.
Do planets revolve around earth?
No, planets orbit around the sun directly.
What is it called when planets revolve around the earth?
Please kindly note planets revolve round the sun only.
