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Name: Sean
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Age: 12
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Date: 1999 - 2000
Question:
Does the sun move at all? Does everything in the universe move?

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Sean -

Everything moves. When we want to analyze motion, though, we find it useful to assume that something is standing still. We call it a point of reference. Our most used (but not the only) frame of reference is the earth.

Larry Krengel


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