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Astronomy (Socrates ("Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the…

- - - - Astronomers and scientists such as Ptolemy, Kepler was the first to say planets orbit in ellipses, and Newton helped form the basis of our knowledge about orbits and their shapes
        
        Some objects follow a predictable path, while others change direction randomly
- - - - The time it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun once is called a year
        
        We think of a year as 365 calendar days or 366 days if it is a Leap Year
        
        The Earth actually takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds to orbit the Sun once
        
        rounded to 5:48:45 to 6 hours or ¼ of a day
        
        We can’t put ¼ of a day on the calendar so we save it and every four years adding an extra day to the calendar making it 366 or a leap year
        
        Either way, the numbers are not exact in planetary motions
- - - - Why
        
        The closer a planet is to the Sun and it's gravitation, the faster it will revolve.