The Earth's Revolution
The Revolution of the Earth is not to be confused with the Rotation of the Earth. This is a common mistake among Geography students. The Revolution process defines the movement of the planet Earth around the sun on its elliptical orbit. This journey takes 365 1/4 days to happen once. This is otherwise known as one Earth year. Therefore if your birthday is today, where ever the Earth is today in its orbit, it would take a further 365 1/4 days to go around the sun and get back to that same point for another birthday celebration. Interesting, isn't it? The Earth's Revolution has an impact our climatic seasons. We will explore this further in a subsequent posting.
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