About the Author. Lincoln Peirce began creating comics in the 6th grade (just like Big Nate!). He went on to teach art at a New York City High School. Lincoln created the cartoon-strip character Big Nate in 1991, naming the character after a nickname he gave his older brother as a kid.
Sidereal year, from one time a particular star is in a given position to the next time 365.25636 days. Anomalistic year, from the time the Earth is at its closest to the Sun to the next time 365.25964 days. What causes the seasons? The Earth in southern summer and winter. The short answer is the tilt of the Earth or put more impressively, the obliquity of the ecliptic. The axis of the Earth is tilted by 23.4 degrees to the plane in which it travels around the Sun, the ecliptic.
However, Earth is also orbit â¦ ing the Sun, and after the Earth has rotated exactly one time in 23 hours and 56 minutes, it takes the Earth another four minutes to rotate enough to compensate for the Earth's movement in its orbit. about 24 hours 24 hours or 1 day 24 hours.Roughly 4 minutes less than 24 hours.he actual rotation time is a little less, about 23 hours and 56 minutes. But the solar day is longer, almost exactly 24 hours, because of the distance the Earth moves in its orbit around the Sun. The Earth has to turn that extra 4 minutes to again directly face the Sun.