Geography, asked by sanju1310, 1 year ago

the earth takes about hours to complete one rotation most places on the earth experience day and night with the apartment

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Answered by maratiakhilp252dq
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Excellent question - you are correct, that doesn't make sense. The solution is simple, though - the Earth doesn't rotate once every 24 hours. It rotates once every 23 hours 56 minutes. 4 minutes/day * 365 days = 24 hours (roughly - it's not exactly 4 minutes and it's not exactly 365 days, but close enough). Therefore, over the course of a year that extra 4 minutes a day exactly compensates for the Earth having gone once around the sun.

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