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How far does the Earth movie in its orbit around the sun each day?
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∙ 7y ago
Distance from sun to earth : 93 million miles
Circumference : 93 million * 2 * pi = 584.3 million miles
Divided by 365 1/4 days in a year, that gives about 1.6 million miles
Figures are approximate. The path is elliptical instead of circular, so planets do not move at a constant speed. Relative to the Sun, the Earth travels at 30 kilometers per second.
There are 60*60*24=86400 seconds in one day so:
2,592,000 kilometers per day.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 13y agoThat depends on what your "frame of reference" is if the frame of reference is the solar system, then you can calculate the Earths orbital path length: Pi * 300,000,000 km or about 1 billion km.
In a day it travels on average 1/365 of this (about 2,8 million km)
If your frame of reference is the galaxy it take about 220 000 000 years for the solar system to complete one revolution and our distance from the center of the Milky Way is about 30,000 light years or 2,84 * 1017 km
To calculate the orbiatl path length we multiply this radius times 2 times pi and get over 1.8 * 1018 kilometers. divide this by 220 million and by 365 to get a day's travel of over 22 million km around the galaxy (almost ten times the distance we travel around the Sun!)
How the galaxy is moving with respect to other galaxies - I forget but it very well could be a lot more than the galactic rotation...
How these relative motions add up or cancel each other out I have very little knowledge but i do know that the plane of rotation of the Earth around the Sun is at 60° to the galactic equator so we make at best a sort of long drawn out corkscrew motion around the galaxy.
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∙ 9y agoIn one day, the Earth travels 1.6 million miles around the sun. It is the third planet from the sun and the only planet known to inhabit life.
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∙ 15y agothe earth travels an arc of it's orbit approximately 1,600,924.9 miles in one day.
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∙ 11y agoAbout 12,360,000 miles.
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