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  2. Earth's orbit - Wikipedia

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    The point towards which the Earth in its solar orbit is directed at any given instant is known as the "apex of the Earth's way". [4] [5] From a vantage point above the north pole of either the Sun or Earth, Earth would appear to revolve in a counterclockwise direction around the Sun. From the same vantage point, both the Earth and the Sun would ...

  3. Galactic year - Wikipedia

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    The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its trajectory around the Galactic Center, [3] a speed at which an object could circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds; that speed corresponds to approximately 1/1300 of the speed of light.

  4. Orbital period - Wikipedia

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    For celestial bodies in the solar system, the synodic period (with respect to Earth and the Sun) differs from the tropical period owing to Earth's motion around the Sun. For example, the synodic period of the Moon 's orbit as seen from Earth , relative to the Sun , is 29.5 mean solar days, since the Moon's phase and position relative to the Sun ...

  5. Sun-synchronous orbit - Wikipedia

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    An orbit will be Sun-synchronous when the precession rate ρ = ⁠ dΩ / dt ⁠ equals the mean motion of the Earth about the Sun n E, which is 360° per sidereal year (1.990 968 71 × 10 −7 rad/s), so we must set n E = ⁠ ΔΩ E / T E ⁠ = ρ = ⁠ ΔΩ / T ⁠, where T E is the earth orbital period while T is the period of the spacecraft ...

  6. Axial precession - Wikipedia

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    e, eccentricity of Earth's (Sun's) orbit or Moon's orbit. and 1/2 accounts for the average of the sine squared waveform, () accounts for the average distance cubed of the Sun or Moon from Earth over the entire elliptical orbit, [34] and ε (the angle between the equatorial plane and the ecliptic plane) is the maximum value of δ for the Sun and ...

  7. Ecliptic - Wikipedia

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    The ecliptic or ecliptic plane is the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun. [1] [2] [a] From the perspective of an observer on Earth, the Sun's movement around the celestial sphere over the course of a year traces out a path along the ecliptic against the background of stars. [3]

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  9. Earth's rotation - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the sidereal day is shorter than the stellar day by about 8.4 ms. [37] Both the stellar day and the sidereal day are shorter than the mean solar day by about 3 minutes 56 seconds. This is a result of the Earth turning 1 additional rotation, relative to the celestial reference frame, as it orbits the Sun (so 366.24 rotations/y).