How many times...?

[coolguy]

Does the Earth spin around in one day (24 hrs)? If anyone knows it would be really appreciated! I am just curious for personal interest. Just kind of wondered so I didn't know where else to ask.

[tuffel999]

Um.......1 that is kind of the definition of a day. Well actually a little under 24 hours hence the leap years that get added but 1 is close enough for most stuff.

[Doodler]

Actually, you might want to hit one of the threads Oriel started, the answer is that it spins slightly more than once a day. If you can wade through the stubborn arguements by Oriel, you can actually pick up a lot of interesting data from the counters to his claims.

[Peter B]

Um.......1 that is kind of the definition of a day. Well actually a little under 24 hours hence the leap years that get added but 1 is close enough for most stuff.

Er, not quite.

The leap year comes from the fact that the Earth completes one orbit in amount of time which is not an exact number of days.