How many times has Earth orbited the sun?

[admin]

We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years.

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[raid2506]

An informative article, thank you. It also made me wonder why I've not thought of it like that before?
As an aside, the penultimate word in the article "majorly" is an informal slang term and I question it's use in an otherwise balanced and informative piece 🤔.

 

[chaz1252]

I don't care how many scientists agree on the age of our planet, there is no way to know.
they can guess which is what they are doing. They may know a lot about this great orb circling our star but they will never know everything.

 

[PaulnFortWorth]

We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years.

How many times has Earth orbited the sun? : Read more

As the sun gets older it will expand because of loss of mass. Since the mass decreases, won't the size of Earth's orbit creep away from the sun? Won't our tides decrease in height?

 

[rocksnstars]

In around 4.5 billion years, the sun will ... transition into a red giant star, not a red dwarf.

 

[Pawel50]

Ziemia okrąża Słońce raz w ciągu jednego roku. Dziesięć regularnych zastosowań orbitalnych trwa około 365,25 dni, co stanowi dla naszego kalendarza rocznego. To tylko liczba obiegów wokół Słońca determinuje zmianę pory roku i inne cykle astronomiczne, które spotykają się w życiu na naszej planecie.