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se Neb | Oh, something else to think about is the rotation of the Earth. If you are standing at the North or South Pole, your relative speed of motion in relation to the Earth is zero mph. If you are standing on the equator, you are traveling at approximately 1,000 mph (25000 miles / 24 hours). The speed of the Earth can be figured by finding the circumference of a circle (c= pi X r squared) with a radius of 93,000,000 miles and divide by the product of 365 X 24. That will give you an approximate mph of the Earth as it orbits the sun. I'm to lazy on this Sunday morning to do that calculating. I don't have enough info to tell how to calculate the speed of the sun as the Milky Way rotates, or the Milky Way's path in the Universe. All I can conjecture is that here on Earth, when we take into consideration all of the movements I have discussed, we are traveling at an extremely amazing speed through space.
Edited by rust lover 9/20/2020 09:37
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Is the sun stationary or does it move around?
