The earth that we live on, turns out to continue to move without stopping. The earth rotates on its axis, like a basketball at a player’s fingertips.
The question is, how fast is it spinning on its axis and how fast is it orbiting the sun? Furthermore, how fast is the solar system orbiting the Milky Way galaxy?
According to astronomers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, the Earth rotates on its own axis about once every 24 hours (or, to be precise, every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds).
Earth is 24,898 miles (40,070 kilometers) across, so when you divide the distance by time, that means the planet is rotating at 1,037 mph or 1,670 km/h. While the speed of the Earth orbiting the Sun is about 67,000 mph or 110,000 km / h).
Earth revolves around the sun and divides it by the length of time it takes to complete one orbit is 365 days or called a year.
To calculate the distance of the Earth around the sun, is to determine the circumference of the circle. We know that Earth is, on average, about 93 million miles (149.6 million km) from the sun.
Once the circumference (the distance the Earth travels around the sun in one orbit) is calculated, the orbital speed can be determined.
The solar system, which includes the sun and all objects in its orbit, is also moving. They are all located within the Milky Way, which orbits around the center of the galaxy.
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