Do you wish you can play outside forever at a time because the sun never went down? You might dread the winter days because they are so short.On winter days you wake up before the sun is even up then you go to school and when you get home you have barely any time to play outside and do your homework before the sun goes down.Things would be different if 1-The earth orbited in a perfect circle around the sun 2-earths axis was perpendicular(straight up and down).If the earth was like that the sun would rise and set the same time every day.The earth would also take the same path every day of the year.But neither of those conditions are true or false.Instead of a perfectly circular orbit the earths orbit around the sun is slightly elliptical this means the sun travels across the sky at slightly different speeds of day depending on where the earth is in orbit.You can read the article here.
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