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Earth is slightly pear shaped.
This has no significant effects other than the orbits of satellites. It doesn't cause any daily or seasonal changes which affect life on earth. Earth wobbles on it's axis. One wobble takes 26-thousand years. This too has no effect on the seasons or climate. It just changes the direction that the earth's axis points towards in space. Earth is gradually slowing down, that is why we sometimes add one second to the lenght of the year. This is caused by the tidal (gravitational) interaction of the earth and moon. The earth's rotation is slowing down and the moon is moving farther away from the earth in it's orbit. The solar system which Earth is in which is also in the Milky Way Galaxie is moving through Space at about 60,000 miles per hour. It's all relative. The earth is moving (rotating) at 1000-miles per hour at the equator. The earth revolves at about 66,000-mph in it's orbit around the sun. The solar system is revolving around the center of the galaxy at about 550,000-mph. Our Milky Way galaxy is moving through space at millions of miles per hour relative to most other galaxies but we are actually approaching the Andromeda galaxy, which is currently about 2-million light years away. (11,600,000-trillion miles) It will still take about 3-billion years before the big collison. http://tinyurl.com/2zlp44 Earth is closer to the Sun in Winter and further away from the Sun in Summer. This is true only for the northern hemisphere and it's not what causes the seasons. |
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