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How Earth moves-Rotation, Revolution and much more

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Rotation The Earth rotates on its axis relative to the sun every 24.0 hours producing the 24hour day

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Revolution Earth revolves about the Sun producing the 365day year

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Actually Earth revolves in orbit around the sun in 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes with reference to the stars

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Notably the 6 hours 9 minutes adds up to about an extra day every fourth year which is designated a leap year with the extra day added as February 29th

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NASA says that while Rotation refers to an objects spinning motion about its own axis Revolution refers to the objects orbital motion around another object

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The speed at which the Earth is moving ranges from 29.29 to 30.29 kms

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Earths orbit is elliptical and reaches its closest approach to the sun a perihelion of 147090000 km on about January fourth of each year

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Aphelion comes six months later at 152100000 km

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Amazingly human activity can affect Earth. According to NASA the Three Gorges Dam in China slows down the rotation of the Earth by 0.06 microseconds

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