SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement BEST describes the geocentric model of the solar system ? Earth is at the center. The sun and all other planets orbit Earth. How would a person who believes in the geocentric solar system model explain the movement of the sun across the sky during the day?

Detailed explanation-2: -In astronomy, the geocentric theory of the universe is the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe and other objects go around it. Belief in this system was common in ancient Greece.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ptolemy placed the Earth at the centre of his geocentric model. Using the data he had, Ptolemy thought that the universe was a set of nested spheres surrounding the Earth. He believed that the Moon was orbiting on a sphere closest to the Earth, followed by Mercury, then Venus and then the Sun.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ans: it shows the sun at the centre of the solar system.

Detailed explanation-5: -An astronomer named Eudoxus created the first model of a geocentric universe around 380 B.C. Eudoxus designed his model of the universe as a series of cosmic spheres containing the stars, the sun, and the moon all built around the Earth at its center.