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.
It takes 365 1/4 solar days, 24 hours long each, for the Earth to complete that journey at a mean distance of 93 million miles from the parent sun, Sol, a G type middle-sized yellow star.Earth itself has a large satellite whirling around it, the Moon, 240, 000 miles out.he planet is tilted at an angle of 23.5' and its spinning axis is 23.93 hours and to orbit the sun it takes 365.26 days. the earth is 93 million miles away from the sun (149.6 million km). big bounce Â· 8 years ago. Thumbs up.