Height,Position of the Sun

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  • There is an imaginary line that divide the earth in the middle into two halves the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and that is the Equator
  • The imaginary line Earth moves around the sun is the orbit
  • The movement of the Earth on the orbit around the sun is what you called Revolution
  • The earth takes 365 1/4 days to complete a orbit around the sun
  • the year with 366 days is what you called Leap Year that happens every 4 years
  • the Earth's axis is tileted in an angle of 23.5
  • the Earth rotates on Counter Clockwise
  • The earth moves around the sun in an extended circular or oval that is called elliptical orbit
  • Elliptical Orbit is first described by johannes kepler
  • Perihelion is when earth is at its closest point to the sun with 147.1 million
  • Aphelion is when the earth is at its farthest point from the sun with the distance of 152.1 million